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Forget Stonehenge – Dungeness has benches and a nuclear reactor. And I'm sure a couple of those pylons line up with the sun at summer solstice if you stand in the right place.
This is the long exposure version of the shot that I posted a couple of weeks ago. I doubt I'll see a sunset like this for a long time.
Decommissioned nuclear power plant Brokdorf - Schleswig-Holstein/ Germany (Panorama)
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The frost on the ground and trees makes the scene look like something out of science fiction novel depicting a nuclear winter.
DRS' 88010 'Aurora' and 68004 'Rapid' pass the along the sea wall at Saltcoats with 6M23 from Hunterston to Sellafield. This service is used to move nuclear material from the Hunterston nuclear power stations to Sellafield for processing.
Hunterston in North Ayrshire is home to 2 nuclear power stations - Hunterston A and Hunterston B.
Hunterston A operated between 1964 and 1990 and is in the process of being decommissioned by NDA licensee Magnox Ltd. The decommissioning process is planned to end in 2072 at which point the buildings will be demolished and site cleared.
Hunterston B - operated by EDF Energy - is still active having started operations in 1976. The station has managed to remain operational for longer than initially expected (decommissioning was due to start in 2011), but operations will cease within the next few months with the decommissioning process planned to start no later than the 7th of January 2022.
Within the last decade Hunterston B has gained media attention after it was discovered that the number of fractures in the reactors exceeded the operational limit specified in the safety case. The reactors were shut down while investigations were carried out and a revised safety case submitted to the regulator. Each of the 2 reactors were subsequently restarted in August 2020 and September 2020 respectively.
While I know that I took this photo at the The Smithsonians National Museum of American History in Washington DC, I can't recall what this is nor the display it comes from. It looks quite sinister and most likely relates to splitting atoms.
'Astute' & 'Intrepid' Class68s take charge of two nuclear waste wagons from Winfrith to Crewe. 68 003 leading 002 are seen crossing the causeway aka 'The Mud' at Holes Bay, Dorset.
The causeway is known as "The Mud" by local railwaymen and was originally constructed in 1842 as a single line. Creekmoor and Upton Viaducts were built in 1937 to enable tidal water flow.
The train is operated by Direct Rail Services, part of Nuclear Transport Solutions NTS and consists of purpose-built flasks and wagons.
More recently the train has consisted of either 6 or 10 special wagons but always with 2 locos top-n-tail.
It was my third try at this location: the first time I got lost in the dark forest. The second time I had 10h of continuous rain. And now it finally happend and I got a shot I dreamed about for a long time... Btw, this is me on the edge ;)
When I drove through the first fields covered with fog I couldn't believe my luck since this is the best possible condition one could ask for at the Wegelnburg. The crazy colors of the sunrise did the rest!
I am currently experiencing this crazy thing called 'work' for the first time which is why I don't have that much time left for photography... I hope we can still stay friends :D
Pacific Fiction ...
Faithful to the heritage of conceptual art, fascinated by land art and especially by Robert Smithson, influenced by Olafur Eliasson’s teaching at the Institut für Raumexperimente in Berlin, Julian Charrière sets in motion research processes that give rise to performances, photographic records, films and installations.
His materials, including decaying organic matter, cryogenically frozen plants, sediment and salt bricks reflect particular times and spaces, both as tangible traces of what he calls a ‘geology of history’ and as explorations of humanity’s interdependent relationship with our environment.
Pacific Fiction – Study for Monument is one of a set of works created by Charrière following his exploration of the Marshall Islands and the Bikini atoll, part of his research into former nuclear testing sites as dystopian places par excellence.
The United States test-fired nearly seventy nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands from 1946 to 1958, including Castle Bravo, the single most powerful H-bomb, which wiped two islands from the map.
Pacific Fiction, a pyramid of coconuts encased in lead, can be read as the model for a future memorial. The coconuts refer to the etymology of the Bikini atoll, which takes its name from the local Melanesian name ‘Pikinni’, ‘pik’ meaning ‘surface’ and ‘ni’ meaning ‘coconut palm’. The lead is used for its physical property of withstanding radiation. While the pile of coconuts echoes a stock of cannon balls, the work’s pyramid shape and its subtitle, Study for Monument, also conjure up images of a tomb, Egyptian pyramids, the architecture of the bunkers on the Bikini atoll shoreline, and the angular iron monoliths that slumber in the depths of the Pacific.
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Pazifische Fiktion ...
Getreu dem Erbe der Konzeptkunst, fasziniert von der Land Art und insbesondere von Robert Smithson, beeinflusst von der Lehre Olafur Eliassons am Institut für Raumexperimente in Berlin, setzt Julian Charrière Forschungsprozesse in Gang, aus denen Performances, fotografische Aufzeichnungen, Filme und Installationen hervorgehen.
Seine Materialien, darunter verrottende organische Materie, kryogenisch gefrorene Pflanzen, Sedimente und Salzziegel, spiegeln bestimmte Zeiten und Räume wider, sowohl als greifbare Spuren dessen, was er eine "Geologie der Geschichte" nennt, als auch als Erkundungen der wechselseitigen Beziehung zwischen dem Menschen und seiner Umwelt.
Pacific Fiction - Study for Monument gehört zu einer Reihe von Werken, die Charrière im Anschluss an seine Erkundung der Marshallinseln und des Bikini-Atolls geschaffen hat, die Teil seiner Recherchen über ehemalige Atomtestgelände als dystopische Orte par excellence sind.
Die Vereinigten Staaten haben von 1946 bis 1958 auf den Marshallinseln fast siebzig Atombomben getestet, darunter Castle Bravo, die stärkste H-Bombe, die zwei Inseln von der Landkarte tilgte.
Pacific Fiction, eine mit Blei ummantelte Pyramide aus Kokosnüssen, kann als Modell für ein künftiges Mahnmal gelesen werden. Die Kokosnüsse beziehen sich auf die Etymologie des Bikini-Atolls, das seinen Namen von der lokalen melanesischen Bezeichnung "Pikinni" ableitet, wobei "pik" für "Oberfläche" und "ni" für "Kokospalme" steht. Das Blei wird wegen seiner physikalischen Eigenschaft, Strahlung zu widerstehen, verwendet. Während der Haufen Kokosnüsse an einen Vorrat an Kanonenkugeln erinnert, rufen die ursprüngliche Pyramidenform des Werks und sein Untertitel Study for Monument auch Bilder eines Grabes, ägyptischer Pyramiden, der Architektur der Bunker auf dem Bikini-Atoll und der kantigen Eisenmonolithen hervor, die in den Tiefen des Pazifiks schlummern.
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The sun sets over Lake Erie while a plume of water vapor rises from one of the cooling towers at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant.
A centralised version of the access tunnel into a nuclear shelter we shot at recently. Need to head back soon as we have more work to do here.
Like a scene from an apocalypse movie…an eerie and isolating atmosphere.
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"The infected are overrunning conventional forces, if they break containment it's all over, there's only one option left"
DRS Class 68 Nos. 68018 & 68009 take the line towards Ardrossan at Kilwinning with 6S54, the 04:42 Carlisle Kingmoor – Hunterston nuclear flasks in pouring rain on 22nd September 2022.
De Federale regering van België heeft besloten de kernreactoren van Electrabel Doel 1 en 2 langer open te houden. In eerste instantie zou de kerncentrale sluiten in 2015 maar dit is verlengd met 10 jaar. Doel 1 en 2 zijn samen goed voor 866 MWe.
Strange graffiti found in the upstairs bedroom of this abandoned homestead
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Not sure who put it there and it's message remains elusive but it's artistic and creative value could not be overlooked.
Late afternoon view from near the Pantex Plant towards Amarillo.
Pantex is the United States' only nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility and is charged with maintaining the safety, security and reliability of the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile.
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New toys to play with - Bubble wall - Thanks very much to Ibstock Aquatics and Reptiles for sending me the extra Airline tubing!
Strobist info - Canon430ez behind kiwi with a CTO + Yellow gel, firing into 100mm piece of plastic piping to give a circular snoot. Canon 430ez to the right of fruit aiming down. White tile below fruit to provide extra lighting.
The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is an inoperative nuclear power plant located on the Pacific coast of California, in the northwestern corner of San Diego County, south of San Clemente. The plant is currently in the initial stages of preparation to be decommissioned after being closed in 2013 following the failure of recently replaced steam generators. Shortly after I took this photo, I was asked, no TOLD to leave the beach! (see San Onofre #1). I used Nik HDR to give the clouds a bit more definition. Happy Sliders Sunday!
WRRX RS1 39-5310 is at Oak Ridge, Tennessee on April 2, 2020. WRRX rosters two rebuilt RS1s that originally came from the Savannah River Site Nuclear Reservation. When the DOE replaced the pair with a GP60 and B40-8 which were purchased new, the pair of RS1s migrated to K25, in modern terms, East Tennessee Technology Park at Oak Ridge.