Photo Essay
Trojan Implosion, Take One: An Historical Moment
By Sam Lowry, Guest Writer, 5-23-06
Sam Lowry, an enterprising, freewheelin’ writer (and occasional New West correspondant) took to the hills Saturday night for a firsthand view of the 7 a.m. Sunday implosion of the Trojan Nuclear Plant cooling tower northwest of Portland
Lowry climbed a slope in the ridges across the Columbia River, waited all night and snapped these photos. It was, he said, an historic moment he wanted to witness. His photos show, in order, the 499-foot Trojan cooling tower at sunrise, then the tower as nearly 2,800 pounds of dynamite blast through it, causing the tons of concrete and steel to collapse onto itself.
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