Long Island's decommissioned nuclear power plant
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Long Island's decommissioned nuclear power plant
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Re: Long Island's decommissioned nuclear power plant
#2The control panels that fuse schematics and buttons and indicators feel like a peak of design philosophy.
Intuitive, readily interpretable at a glance, spatially oriented (instead of tucked behind layers of tabs and recursive settings).
Re: Long Island's decommissioned nuclear power plant
#3I think the control panels are as compelling as the big industrial rooms. Fantastic pictures!
Re: Long Island's decommissioned nuclear power plant
#4Interesting. You can see the building from the beach and I always wondered what's inside. And while it's the only (decommissioned) nuclear power plant on Long Island, it's not the only nuclear reactor. There was also the High Flux Beam Reactor at BNL that was decommissioned in the 90s:
Re: Long Island's decommissioned nuclear power plant
#5why wasn't it scrapped? it's not like all that steel is irradiated.
Re: Long Island's decommissioned nuclear power plant
#6why wasn't it scrapped? it's not like all that steel is irradiated.
Probably not economical to do that... Parts that could be sold, like 2/3 of the turbines, apparently were!
As for the parts of the steel that do get irradiated, anybody interested in seeing a flame cutter going to town to Blue Oyster Cult? I think so...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Jt8EMF5Lg
I'd love to see some videos of robotic diamond wire cutters on the biological shield concrete, but haven't found any of those.
Edit: found one! From Sweden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc5jdvc1yD8
Re: Long Island's decommissioned nuclear power plant
#7if you want to see a video (9 years ago) from inside the plant, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONEm1ph3MP4 - the top comment is also interesting
Re: Long Island's decommissioned nuclear power plant
#8Interesting. You can see the building from the beach and I always wondered what's inside. And while it's the only (decommissioned) nuclear power plant on Long Island, it's not the only nuclear reactor. There was also the High Flux Beam Reactor at BNL that was decommissioned in the 90s: https://www.bnl.gov/hfbr/ https://www.bnl.gov/hfbr/hfbr-complex.php
Oh, so that's what that building was!
Re: Long Island's decommissioned nuclear power plant
#9Has the site also been decommissioned - or just hugged - none of the images are loading for me at the moment
Re: Long Island's decommissioned nuclear power plant
#10Has the site also been decommissioned - or just hugged - none of the images are loading for me at the moment
All good its working for me now