Hartsville (TN)

[michaelcook]

Continuing my project looking at cancelled reactor complexes, I recently made a first visit to a couple of TVA sites. Here are a few frames from the four cancelled units at Hartsville, TN.


Parts of the Hartsville "A" Complex, from a middle deck of a turbine/control building.


Footings for one of the B unit reactor cores.


Inside the containment for one of the A reactors.


What I took to be a fuel handling building in the A complex, please correct me if I'm mistaken.

I'll post more photographs to this thread when I've processed them.

There are three days left to make a pledge at http://www.ulule.com/nuclear-carcasses to support this project, which explores the remaining physical footprints of unfinished reactor projects. In exchange for your support, you can receive one of a selection of prints of the photographs I made at Marble Hill, IN (or if you would prefer one of these Hartsville images, just message me and we can make arrangements).

Donations will fund further work in the Tennessee Valley, as well as at other sites across the U.S. For more discussion about the ideas behind this project, which I have retitled "Temples of the Atom," do check out the previous Marble Hill thread.

[michaelcook]

One more photograph:

[michaelcook]

Footings for the second Hartsville cooling tower.


Inside containment for the other "A" complex core.


And there it is.

[Fermi2]

Must have been a BWR 6.

[Higgs]

Hey thanks for the pics and the reminder to donate! Sent a little help your way!

Justin

PS I can't believe that is a vessel sitting in the middle of the last pic. Good stuff! I might have to go take this tour one day myself!

[Higgs]

He is 19 bucks away from goals fellas. Someone caught up a 20.

If you don't get there in the next day, I will finish it off.

Justin

[Fermi2]

Just out of curiosity did you get TVA permission before you entered their property and took pictures?

[michaelcook]

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.

[UncaBuffalo]

I will be working to secure permission to visit and photograph the Satsop WPPSS site in WA...

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...



And the drive from Richland to Trojan is incredible...mostly the Columbia Gorge - some of the best scenery in the world.  And take the coastal route from Trojan to Satsop...Astoria...Cape Disappointment...  

...and old-growth forest of Olympic Peninsula...and ferry to Vancouver Island...and kayaks in San Juan Islands...and...

[Higgs]

Hey looks like you are fully funded! Congrats!

Justin

[michaelcook]

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...

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.

...and...

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.

Hey looks like you are fully funded! Congrats!

Thank you sir!

[UncaBuffalo]

Among all the other obvious draws, the cooling stations look incredible on the sat image.

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]

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!

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]

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.

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.

[Fermi2]

You can't. It's considered to be under evaluation for completion. They won't allow pictures.

[michaelcook]

Alright, that's regrettable. It would be interesting and worthwhile (and good for TVA prestige) to be able to present some views into a halted site that was about to be restarted and completed.

[Fermi2]

I'm certain our well paid public relations staff is fully capable of doing that.

[UncaBuffalo]

I'm certain our well paid public relations staff is fully capable of doing that.

Never hurts to ask...maybe you can supply him with one of the PR people's contact info?  Thanks!

I'm enjoying all the pictures. 

[Fermi2]

Last time I checked I'm not a telephone directory.

[drayer54]

Last time I checked I'm not a telephone directory.

I'm certain our well paid public relations staff is fully capable of doing that.

You can't. It's considered to be under evaluation for completion. They won't allow pictures.

I work for TVA. It's a federal facility. You needed permission...

Always here to lend a helping hand!

[UncaBuffalo]

Last time I checked I'm not a telephone directory.

I apologize. 




I tend to assume that everyone here is trying to help each other, esp. with info that is easy from the 'inside' (inter-office directory?), but more difficult from the 'outside'...  I guess I will learn eventually that such isn't always the case... 

[Higgs]

I contacted a person I know at TVA, and they've confirmed that access is restricted to the site and that he wouldn't be able to get in for pictures.

Justin

[Fermi2]

I contacted a person I know at TVA, and they've confirmed that access is restricted to the site and that he wouldn't be able to get in for pictures.

Justin

Like I said Justin. Last time I checked I'm TVA

[Higgs]

Like I said Justin. Last time I checked I'm TVA

Oh I know, I had a question out to a contact before this last exchange of posts. Just wanted to back up what you said.