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Hartsville (TN)
michaelcook:
--- Quote from: UncaBuffalo on Jul 07, 2011, 12:43 ---If you are coming clear out to Washington, you should try to catch WPPSS units 1 & 3 at Richland, too. Satsop is forested, Richland is desert...you could get two distinctly different 'feels'...
And Trojan might be worth a drive-by...even though it operated. It still is an example of a 'nuclear carcass' that has been mostly cleaned up...only support buildings & switchyard (and ISFSI) left...
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Thank you for the suggestions. With enough planning and the requisite permissions, Richland/Hanford would definitely be on the radar. Among all the other obvious draws, the cooling stations look incredible on the sat image.
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Oh, definitely---I have family in Vancouver and Victoria. Apart from a few particularly dreary modern highways, the wondrous landscapes do not stop from Northern Cal to the North Slope.
--- Quote from: TheHiggs on Jul 07, 2011, 01:06 ---Hey looks like you are fully funded! Congrats!
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Thank you sir!
UncaBuffalo:
--- Quote from: Michael Cook on Jul 07, 2011, 01:15 ---Among all the other obvious draws, the cooling stations look incredible on the sat image.
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http://www.nukeworker.com/pictures/displayimage-lastup-0-8295.html#top_display_media
Yeah, I don't have much of a camera, but...someone with a real 'eye' (YOU!) could have fun with them!
michaelcook:
--- Quote from: UncaBuffalo on Jul 07, 2011, 01:21 ---http://www.nukeworker.com/pictures/displayimage-lastup-0-8295.html#top_display_media
Yeah, I don't have much of a camera, but...someone with a real 'eye' (YOU!) could have fun with them!
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Well, regardless of the gear being used, those sunsets are lovely. Now I'm going to have to tackle the extra challenge of getting access scheduled for evening light!
Fermi2:
--- Quote from: Michael Cook on Jul 06, 2011, 10:43 ---The abandoned portion of the Hartsville site can be reached on foot from adjacent land that appears to be unrestricted. The two complexes are well-removed from separately bounded zones that surround TVA's equipment repository and the business park that now occupies a large chunk of the project's former land parcel. Apparently folks have been known to camp out beneath the tower, and there is a permitted deer hunt in the fall.
Because of the condition of the unfinished buildings, I have my doubts that formal permission from TVA could ever be forthcoming, so TheHiggs may have a long wait for the tour. Given the many unprotected fall hazards, I would not recommend attempting to access the abandoned building sites. However, if all someone wanted is that view of the exposed vessel, I think it is reasonably straightforward during business hours to drive up adjacent to the "A" complex via the business park and see the vessel and the tower up close.
I will be working to secure permission to visit and photograph the Satsop WPPSS site in WA, as well as abandoned infrastructure on sites in the Great Lakes-Midwest where projects were converted to thermal. If anyone can suggest a good first point of contact at Duke-Zimmer or at Midland Cogen (or for that matter who to talk with at TVA about visiting Bellefonte, where I understand that they did do a media tour recently), I would appreciate your input.
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I work for TVA. It's a federal facility. You needed permission...
michaelcook:
As I mentioned, I'd appreciate your suggestion about what office I should be courting to get in to see Bellefonte.
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