Explosives Demolish Two 300-Area Buildings.
Before the sun rose Friday morning, crews watched at three 300-area structures came crashing down. After a quick blast, an exhaust stack was the first to come quietly tumbling down. But the grand finale? That was reserved for office buildings across the street, used by the Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF) when President Carter was in office.
Those buildings crumbled like a house of cards, brought down by 750 pounds of nitroglycerin-based explosives.
“It really went, actually perfect,” Bobby D. Smith said, Demolition Director for Wasington Closure Hanford.
A perfect job – executed in a matter of minutes – required a year of planning by Washington Closure Hanford, Clauss Construction of California, and Controlled Demolition Inc. (CDI), the same company that brought down the Kingdome. They were all working toward one goal:
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