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Published: 2008-10-22 03:15:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 562; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 21
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[please download for full view]Another shot from Evansville, Pennsylvania. This time a sunrise, looking through the clouds of the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station (Nuclear Power Plant.
Some nice detail, but the reflection is my favorite part of the shot.
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The colours are amazing, but I hate pollution grrrr!! Photo is very powerful!!
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Thanks for the compliment. The clouds you see are steam that is generated by the nuclear reactor. So, there is no pollution - other than the creation of hazardous material that need to be buried for centuries.
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Poignant, the way such beauty is easily obscured by man-made waste.
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At least the cloud is just steam. The nuclear plant uses the reaction to super-heat water that turns turbines. The steam then goes to the cooling tower where it cools and will re-condense into water, while the excess just floats away.
Small carbon dioxide footprint to generate the electricity...but high danger of glowing in the dark if something goes wrong.
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lol
Indeed - the visual impact is often greater than the benign reality.
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very nice surreal looking sky, and you're right, the reflections are amazing!
I actually just had to use Google to find out which power plant I was staying near while I was in PA recently. Turns out it wasn't this one, but rather the plant in Limerick, just outside Pottstown. I was in Douglassville about 13 miles away.
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Thanks! Surreal does fit the sky on this morning.
Small world. Pottstown is about 90 miles (145 km) from me. I went on a tour of ours with my high school Nuclear Science class. It was fun, until our instructor was going through the detectors as we left. He set off alarms and someone shouted, "he's hot." Turns out it was something topical, isolated to his jacket (which he had to leave behind).
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Ouch, hope it wasn't a nice jacket
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I think it was cleaned and eventually returned. I guess I'm getting old 
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I wish I had gotten closer to the power plant to get a few shots of it. I actually only ended up getting a little over 200 pictures on the whole trip, and 90% of those were just snapshots. There was so much to do in so little time
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I looked at Google Earth, and the plant looks to be a similar design to the one near me. They like to build near rivers to use the water in the process.
I know what you mean about being someplace and not having enough time to do all the things you want. I feel the same way every time I'm in Toronto.
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