RAID ON THE REACTOR

The story of the IAF's attack on the Iraqi Nuclear reactor near Baghdad in June 1981.

This is long, but this is well worth taking the time to watch . . . S.L.







I remember learning of this event; it was a grey winter's day In Melbourne - down by Flinders Street they had just installed this huge screen that portrayed the news, streaming in black and white almost digital squares - I looked up and saw a map of the Middle East, some lines indicating the route of the Israeli aircraft, and an atomic symbol near Baghdad and I thought, "Oh my God! They've dropped The Bomb on Baghdad!"

That was a couple years before I joined the U.S. Army . . . never did I imagine that I would end up spending so much of my life in that part of the world . . .


- STORMBRINGER SENDS


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"P" is for PLENTY

This Week's Professional Development: Controlled Demolitions Operations


The Trojan Cooling Tower Demolition:





Imagine 25,500 tons of concrete, walls 20' thick . . . 2,400 tons of 2" thick steel rebar . . .



Sellafield (formerly known as Windscale) nuclear processing and former electricity generating site, on the coast of the Irish Sea in Cumbria, England:



Calder Hall was the world's first commercial nuclear power station.



. . . 650 tons of explosives . . .



Gelsenkirchen, Germany:






. . . 620 tons of timber for shoring and tamping the explosives . . .


Blow up of the ARCELOR cooling tower in Luxembourg.
Note: the tower was supposed to fall in the other direction.





"10 seconds to demolish" is not counting the better part of two months it takes to place all those charges.


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