Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Unusual vacation ideas - Science tours

Tour a Kansas salt mine and giant archives - http://undergroundmuseum.org/index.php
Tennessee - tour the most intense neutron beam, and a uranium-enrichment plant, see models of nuclear reactors...
http://ornl.gov/ornlhome/visiting.shtml
Livermore CA - Simulations of worst-case scenario disasters, see world's highest energy laser...
https://www.llnl.gov/about/tours.html
Brookhaven, Long Island - Dept of Energy labs - collider, brightest X-ray source, National Weather Service (storm-tracker) http://www.bnl.gov/community/summer_sunday.asp

From Popular Science, May '11, p.73

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