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An unused nuclear power plant became home to a world-class acoustics lab
These scientists have taken extreme measures to get away from noise.
Never used for their intended purpose, the cooling towers of Washington Nuclear Projects 3 and 5 (WNP-3 and WNP-5) loom over treetops as I drive up to Satsop Business Park, about an hour and a half outside of Seattle. It has hosted film productions, an Overstock.com call center(now closed), and, at one point, thousands of recalled VW vehicles sold back to dealers following an emissions-cheating scandal. As we continue into the building, Sauro tells me a cautionary tale of a careless member of a tour group who fell 500 feet down an unfinished elevator shaft and didn’t survive.
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