Nuclear Power Megapost
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Dresden, Illinois is the USA’s first full-scale, privately financed nuclear power plant.
The cooling channels system can be seen winding through the Des Plains river and the Dresden cooling lake to the south. If you zoom all the way in, to the northeast of the reactor complex is a lumpy area of ground. This is where some spent fuel rods are buried. There were large yellow sirens placed throughout the area and dosimiters hanging on the telephone poles at most every intersection. They test the sirens on the first tuesday of the month. It’s an eerie sounding chorus that pours in through the window if there isn’t one too nearby to drown the others out.
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Perry, Ohio. Apparently home to the best early-season fishing on Lake Erie thanks to the cooling water discharge from the power plant.
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Arco, Idaho was the world’s first nuclear power plant.
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Davis-Besse power plant, Ohio & Palo Verde, Arizona. Palo Verde’s three huge reactors give it the largest capacity of any nuclear power plant in the United States.
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The Comanche Peak Unit 2 nuclear power plant in Glen Rose, Texas.
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Callaway, Missouri has a beautiful plume of steam (I hope) coming out of its cooling tower.
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Phew! There were lots, lots more but after a while they all look similar. I tried to pick the most visually interesting ones. Enjoy.
So “brand new”...” 
But have you got the codes to the reactors? Will you be able to prevent a mass nuclear meltdown!?! Ctrl-alt-left arrow’ll probably do it ;-D
The power plant in ohio is actually spalled “Davis-Besse”
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Placemark: Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant, Plymouth, Massachusetts / Google Earth.
Note the absence of cooling towers… Pilgrim is cooled with ocean water.
What’s extra cool about the first picture in California are the waves.
Did anyone find the Columbia Nuclear Plant in Richland, WA? I was looking around there last week but couldn’t find it.
The proper name of this site is Experimental Breeder Reactor 1 (EBR-1). You have it labeled as Arco, ID, which is actually the name of the town that was first powered by a reactor. To be completely accurate, Arco was provided power by BORAX (Boiling Reactor Experiment). EBR-1 was just the first to generate electricity (4 light bulbs).
If you look at the upper right hand side of the picture of EBR-1, you can see the world’s first atomic jet engines, known as the Heat Transfer Reactor Experiments.
I work at the Pickering Nuclear Power Plant and the overhead shots really give you a good idea just how big the generating station really is. Too bad the overheads of Darlington (to the east) are not nearly as clear, as it is one of the largest generating stations in the world!
Columbia Nuclear Plant in Richland, WA is there at Placemark: this link / Google Earth but because of the nature of their mission(s), you will never get hi res maps like the others posted.
Here there is another nuclear plant, at the south of Miami FL.
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
The first entry is spelled “San Onofre”. Maybe a better California nuke plant is Diablo Canyon:
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
The company I work for is doing some demolition at the Pickering plant. It’s called the Bruce Nuclear Power Generating Station. I drive there every day!
The plant that Mario posted would be Florida Power & Light’s Turkey Point Plant.
Here’s the Limerick plant in Limerick, PA
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
i wonder what the deal with un-naturally green grass is here..
-james
The Arco Reactor is also the first to melt down (in 1955):
http://www.answers.com/topic/ebr-i
A quick note about power generation facilities: cooling towers do not automatically mean the site generates electricity using nuclear fission. For example, the Stanton Energy Center near Orlando, Florida.
Here’s an interesting one: Catawba, near Rock Hill SC:
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
It has six cooling vents, though not large towers like most nuclear plants.
sucky view of Calver Cliffs Plant in MD
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Fermi Nuclear Plant Outside Monroe Michigan
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth;
can you post all the plants somewhere – then we can see them all on a map together…?
Low-Res view of perhaps the most famous American nuclear plant, at Three-Mile Island: http://tinyurl.com/8jdxs
Unfortunately too low-res, but should be the Chernobyl nuclear reactor Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
TMI is visible, but low res
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth Turkey Point Nuke Plant, FL
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth Fort Pierce Nuke Plant, FL
Odd sort of vortex looking thing going on off the Mentor, Ohio site.
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Here’s a interesting one, Remember three mile island. Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
The plant outside Fort Pierce, FL is the St. Lucie Nuclear Plant, owned by Florida Power and Light.
I love the nuclears plants, it’s the best thing that the humanity found in my country have a nuclear plant(Angra 1,2 and 3)
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
three mile island reactors
plz i wont required google aerth and thanks
Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station: Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
For some reason, Perry Nuclear Power Plant in Perry, Ohio (noted above) is currently blurred out. The area immediately around it is not. Why is that? Davis Besse Nuclear Power Plant in Oak Harbor, Ohio still shows up OK.
I live near the one in San Onofre, California. You can clearly see it from the I-5 interstate. With those two big mounds the locals call it the Dolly Parton station.