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Boiling Water Reactors

We drove by the Limerick power plant yesterday and saw these guys up close. Pretty impressive, and creepy. I tried to find a photo that conveyed the immense size, but failed. Image by blakophoto.
Had a very fitting song playing as we passed the reactors.
Strathcona, by Loscil.
Posted by Rot at 8:44 AM Labels: blakophoto, flickr.com, limerick power plant, loscil, nuclear winter



I *should* fear those, but when I see images of them, I always think of The beginning of The Simpsons.:/

It's neat that the whole picture looks as though it was taken in December.

September 13, 2010 at 12:51 PM Jack Oh' Lantern said...

I live about 20 miles south of Trojan park here in Oregon. Until they tore it down, it looked just like these..only no steam since it was shut down years ago. When you drove to the main gate, it really was unbelievably huge....and a bit frightening...

September 14, 2010 at 12:41 AM 
I live about 8 miles from Limerick. At 1st it was very creepy seeing those reactors everyday. Now, (5 years later) it's not a big deal. I take comfort in the fact that if it ever goes up, I wont even have time to worry about it.

September 14, 2010 at 7:20 PM