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One planet, one experiment. Edward O. Wilson
You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.
Bill Maher
The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.
Stephanie Mills
Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something.
Carl Sagan
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
John Muir
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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it. - Barry Commoner
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. - Stewart Udall
The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. - Stephanie Mills
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. - Aldo Leopold
What is the use of a house if you don't have a decent planet to put it on? - Henry David Thoreau
Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. - Carl Sagan
When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done! - Dennis Weaver
After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world. - Pam Shaw
When the soil disappears,
the soul disappears. -
Ymber Delecto
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. - Ansel Adams
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One of the guys I was with decided to take a hit during exploring the Exclusion Zone. Yeah, those insects were there and HUNGRY!
I wish I could spend nights in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone to get to experiance what it like at night. For now I'll imagine what it is like using Photoshop and some sky replacements with the base shot taken at high noon.
For this one I used ON1's SkySwap Plugin.
South Haven has a special meaning for me, and not just because we like to visit and take pictures.
On June 23, 1950, Northwest Flight 2501 disappeared over Lake Michigan in a strong storm. My grandfather was on that airplane; my father lost his father that day.
In the ensuing days, the beaches at South Haven had to be closed because debris, including human remains, were washing up on the shore. While the exact location of the plane has never been determined, it clearly was not that far from South Haven. I even had one person tell me that it was near Palisades nuclear power station, on the basis of fishing nets getting caught in debris nearby. (Extensive searches have never located the wreckage of Flight 2501).
So, South Haven is in some senses "Holy ground" for me. You will not find a more beautiful grave than Lake Michigan.
U.S. National Historic Landmark located in the desert about 18 miles southeast of Arco, Idaho.
On November 29, 1955, the reactor at EBR-I suffered a partial meltdown during a coolant flow test. The flow test was trying to determine the cause of unexpected reactor responses to changes in coolant flow. It was subsequently repaired for further experiments, which determined that thermal expansion of the fuel rods and the thick plates supporting the fuel rods was the cause of the unexpected reactor response.
EBR-I was deactivated by Argonne National Laboratory in 1964 and replaced with a new reactor, Experimental Breeder Reactor II.
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965.
A first visit to Sizewell nuclear power plant for sunrise this morning. Not much sun but plenty of wind and rain
Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
May 2018
I've been there but not at night. Well not in person anyway. But when you have a lucid dream and in it decide to wander Chernobyl's Amusement Park grounds at night in the dream, why not try and recreate the dreamscape?
The Pripyat amusement park is an abandoned amusement park located in Pripyat, Ukraine. It was to be opened for the first time on 1 May 1986, in time for the May Day celebrations, but these plans were cancelled on 26 April, when the Chernobyl disaster occurred a few kilometers away. Several sources report that the park was opened for a short time on 27 April before the announcement to evacuate the city was made, and one site shows photos of the amusement park in operation. Theories that the park was hurriedly opened in the aftermath of the accident to distract Pripyat residents from the unfolding disaster nearby seem to be substantiated by the fact that some of the rides were never fully completed (the Paratrooper was not fitted with canopies and the Ferris wheel's cladding was incomplete). In any case, the park—and its Ferris wheel in particular—have become a symbol of the Chernobyl disaster.
U.S. National Historic Landmark located in the desert about 18 miles southeast of Arco, Idaho.
On November 29, 1955, the reactor at EBR-I suffered a partial meltdown during a coolant flow test. The flow test was trying to determine the cause of unexpected reactor responses to changes in coolant flow. It was subsequently repaired for further experiments, which determined that thermal expansion of the fuel rods and the thick plates supporting the fuel rods was the cause of the unexpected reactor response
The Doel nuclear power plant (KCD: Kerncentrale Doel) is located in the port of Antwerp, on the left embankment of the River Scheldt near the village of Doel (hence it’s name). The site houses 4 nuclear reactors with a total capacity of 2 905 MW. They were put into operation in the period 1975-1985. The plant represents about 15% of the total electricity production capacity in Belgium.
The KCD is not only a landmark in the landscape around Antwerp, but also the focus of public debate. Both the two Belgian nuclear power plants,Doel and Tihange, have structural concrete problems. During inspections by operator Engie Electrabel it was found that there a decay of concrete or carbonation in the ceilings of the two reactors; amongst them Doel 4. And the problems are rapidly accumulating lately. Earlier this year, a leak was found in Doel 1 and a technical defect in Doel 4. The nuclear regulator (Federaal Agentschap voor Nucleaire Controle (FANC)) emphasizes that there are no risks for "the population, the employees and the environment" But nonetheless, the KCD is relatively outdated. Doel 1 and 2 commenced operations in 1975.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) demanded additional security guarantees last year after inspection of the Doel nuclear power plant, after which the management of the plant promised to follow the recommendations of the agency. Next year the IAEA will do another inspection.
Cracks
However, the problems have been going on for much longer. In recent years, it has been established several times that the concrete in the reactors does not meet the (international) requirements. The reactors also had to be shut down several times because of defects. What caused a great deal of controversy was that in 2012, cracks were discovered in the reactor vessels of Tihange 2 and Doel 3. Again FANC stated that there wasn’t any danger. The energy production was temporarily shut down but also soon started up again. But 2 years ago, once more cracks were discovered in a reactor vessel again.
Technical stuff
This is a single handheld HDR photo. Post-production was done in Aurora HDR 2018 and Lightroom CC. I finally added copyright signs. The latter is, alas, there to stay due to the fact that my photos were frequently copied. So, don't bother commenting on that.
At the top of Reactor 5 is this gigantic red panel, while not a door it was most certainly a removable part of the building to allow them to bring parts in.
Without a shadow of a doubt the most dangerous building I have ever been in. At the bottom of the shot are a series of pits which drop 30-40 metres onto various bits of building materials including upward pointing scaffolding poles and jagged concrete.
The Atomkeller Museum is a museum of nuclear technology in a rock cellar below Haigerloch Castle in Haigerloch, Baden-Württemberg. During the final phase of the Second World War, this cellar housed the Haigerloch research reactor.
Construction of reactors number 5 and 6 continued throughout the night of the explosion at the 4th Chernobyl nuclear power plant. If the glow of the fire wasn’t visible from the upper levels then as dawn broke the smoke must have been.
Despite the disaster unfolding next door at 8am that morning the 286 construction workers of the day shift clocked on. Construction work on 5 and 6 was soon stopped but resumed again on the 10th October 1986. Six months later on the 24 April 1987 work was once again halted and on May 23 1989 the decision was made not to complete the reactors.
The Power Plants are located approximately 18 km north west of the City of Chernobyl. Reactor Number 1 was completed in 1977 and followed by Reactor Number 2 in 1978, Number 3 in 1981, and Number 4 in 1983.
Reactor Number 5 was approximately 70% complete at the time of the accident. The 6th was scheduled for completion in 1994. When functioning Reactors 5 and 6 would have been capable of producing 1,000 MW’s each.
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U.S. National Historic Landmark located in the desert about 18 miles southeast of Arco, Idaho.
EBR-I was deactivated by Argonne National Laboratory in 1964 and replaced with a new reactor, Experimental Breeder Reactor II.
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965
Colorful pipes of power supply system and generators of HL-2A tokamak nuclear fusion reactor experiment in Chengdu, China.
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Graffiti of a doctor in a prayer pose, found on the inside of a cooling tower at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine.
The Chernobyl disaster was caused by a nuclear accident that occurred on Saturday 26 April 1986, at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR.