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This plant was shut down in 1968. PM-1 operated at a uranium-235 enrichment of 93 percent. [15] PM-3A McMurdo Station, Antarctica. PM-3A: 1.75 MW electric, plus heating and desalinization. McMurdo Station, Antarctica. [16] Owned by the Navy. Initial criticality March 3, 1962, decommissioned 1972.
McMurdo Station transportation involves many types of land (ground), sea, and air transportation, in addition, there are many types of transports specialized for cold weather and snow/ice conditions. McMurdo Station is a United States science and logistic base on Ross Island , Antarctica, at the southern end of Hut Point Peninsula , near New ...
Mirny Station plane crash [22] Mirny Station, Antarctica 1999 Aircraft: 3 Terre Adélie helicopter crash [23] near the Dumont d'Urville Station, Terre Adélie, Antarctica 2013 Aircraft: 3 Mount Elizabeth plane crash [24] Mount Elizabeth, Antarctica 2012 Shipwreck: 3 Jeong Woo 2 (South Korean fishing vessel) [25] Ross Sea, near the McMurdo Station
McMurdo Station briefly gained global notice when an anti-war protest took place on February 15, 2003. During the rally, about 50 scientists and station personnel gathered to protest against the coming invasion of Iraq by the United States. McMurdo Station was the only Antarctic location to hold such a rally. [20]
The mission's second base, Byrd Station, was a (former) research station in West Antarctica established by the US Navy for Operation Deep Freeze II during the International Geophysical Year. [5] The United States Antarctic Program airfield, built to service Operation Deep Freeze (first mission) was later named Williams Field or Willy Field.
C-141 Starlifter on Ice Runway, near McMurdo Station, 1996. 18 October 1956: a Lockheed P2V-2N Neptune (122465) of the US Navy crashed on landing, killing 4 of the 8 occupants. The Neptune was arriving from Christchurch without enough fuel to turn back and weather at McMurdo was storming; the plane suddenly turned right and the nose fell during ...
The Albert P. Crary Science and Engineering Center (CSEC), located at McMurdo Station, was dedicated in November 1991 by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The laboratory is named in honor of geophysicist and glaciologist Albert P. Crary.
Pegasus Field (ICAO: NZPG) was an airstrip in Antarctica, the southernmost of three airfields serving McMurdo Station. It closed due to excessive melting in the summer season caused by warmer temperatures combined with dust and dirt blown in from nearby Black Island .