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Controlled Blast Topples PGE's Trojan Tower - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR

Publication Date: 23-MAY-06
Author:  Andrew G. Wright
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With a sequenced flash of explosives followed by a muffled thump, the Portland General Electric Trojan nuclear powerplant’s 499-ft-tall cooling tower collapsed upon itself in a cloud of dust early May 20. Hundreds of safely distant onlookers and photographers turned out on a sunny spring Sunday morning to watch a visible monument to Oregon’s ...
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