What is Site A?

Information about Site A

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Inspectors approach Plot M monument on April 19, 2006.
The Site A/Plot M Disposal Site is located within Red Gate Woods and situated on the former grounds of Argonne National Laboratory and its predecessor, the University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory in Cook County, Illinois and is now part of the Palos Forest Preserve. The site contains buried radioactive waste from contaminated building debris, and the Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1), Chicago Pile-2 (CP-2), and Chicago Pile-3 (CP-3) nuclear reactors.

Location

Site A is located near . (41.702364 -87.913306)

During the Glenwood stage of Lake Chicago, this was part of Mount Forest Island, a triangular island 6 miles long and 4 miles wide, rising 80 to 120 feet above the surrounding waters. [1]

External links

Google Maps of Site A and Plot M

References

Alden, William C. (1902). Description of the Chicago District. Geologic Atlas of the United States, Number 81. U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved on 2007-05-23.
Red Gate Woods is a forest preserve within the Palos Division of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, Illinois. Located within the preserve is the original site of Argonne National Laboratory and the Site A/Plot M Disposal Site, which contains the buried remains of Chicago
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Argonne National Laboratory is one of the United States Department of Energy's oldest and largest science and engineering research national laboratories and is the largest in the Midwest, about twice as large as the nearby Fermilab.
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The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. Founded in 1890 by the American Baptist Education Society and the oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, the University of Chicago held its first classes on October 1, 1892.
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Metallurgical Laboratory or "Met Lab" at the University of Chicago was part of the World War II–era Manhattan Project, created by the United States to develop an atomic bomb.
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Cook County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of 2000, the population was 5,376,741, making it the second largest county by population in the United States (after Los Angeles County, California), and accounting for 43.
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Radioactive wastes are waste types containing radioactive chemical elements that do not have a practical purpose. They are sometimes the products of a nuclear processes, such as nuclear fission.
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Location: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA

Coordinates: _ ]

Built/Founded: 1942[1]

Added to NRHP: October 15, 1966[2]


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Lake Chicago was a prehistoric lake that is the ancestor of what is now known as Lake Michigan, one of North America's five great lakes.

Origin

What is now the city of Chicago lies in a broad plain which, hundreds of millions of years ago, was a great interior basin
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