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Shot at sundown across Brest Bay (on Lake Erie) approximately 5 miles away.
The Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear power plant on the shore of Lake Erie near Monroe, in Frenchtown Charter Township, Michigan. It is approximately halfway between Detroit, Michigan, and Toledo, Ohio. It is also visible from parts of Amherstburg and Colchester, Ontario as well as on the shore of Lake Erie in Ottawa County, Ohio. Two units have been constructed on this site. The first unit's construction started in 1963, and the second unit reached criticality in 1988.
The plant is named after the Italian nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi, most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor as well as many other major contributions to nuclear physics. Fermi won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity.
On October 5, 1966 Fermi 1 suffered a partial fuel meltdown, although no radioactive material was released. (Source: Wikipedia.org)
On June 6, 2010 a weak tornado touched down and damaged the Fermi 2 generator building and forced an automatic shutdown. The tornados damaged electrical transmission and distribution infrastructure in the area leaving over 30,000 people without power in the area.
Fermi 2 reactor of the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near Monroe, Michigan was shut down on Monday, June 25, 2012 due to an equipment problem. The Monroe Evening News reported that crews idled the plant around 1:30 p.m. when its steam condenser lost the vacuum that pulls steam across a series of cooling tubes. The condenser turns steam back into water after it’s used to spin the plant’s turbines.
Currently Fermi 2 is "in a safe, stable condition" according to Detroit Edison's spokesperson.
(Source: thewatchers.adorraeli.com)
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Auto-generated grayscale image of Route 3 into Yubari, Hokkaido one a warm day (it got up to about 2C). We were on the way back from Kitahiroshima to visit the vet (well, the cats were visiting the vet, we were just the drivers).
Dubuque Generating Station was built in 1904 by the Union Electric Company to power electric street cars. It originally housed 4 vertical steam turbine units, but underwent several re-powerings over the years. At the time of demolition, the oldest unit onsite was a 15MW manually operated 1929 General Electric steam turbine that still functioned during peak demand. The plant primarily burned coal until it was converted to natural gas in 2011 and finally taken offline in June, 2017 because the plant was not economical when compared to more modern plants and the expansion of solar. Demolition began in Oct, 2018.