Long Island's decommissioned nuclear power plant

64 pointsposted 6 days ago
by mkmk
(nickcarr.com)

8 Comments

ozmaverick72

7 minutes ago

Has the site also been decommissioned - or just hugged - none of the images are loading for me at the moment

HansHamster

2 hours ago

Interesting. 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

hgoel

an hour ago

Oh, so that's what that building was!

epistasis

2 hours ago

I think the control panels are as compelling as the big industrial rooms. Fantastic pictures!

vlian2088

2 hours ago

why wasn't it scrapped? it's not like all that steel is irradiated.

epistasis

an hour ago

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

rkagerer

6 days ago

The 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).