Three Mile Island (pics!)

[marko138]

Originally Posted by Bluestreak

Great pictures Marko. I took a tour of the island when I was in elementry school. A bus tour if I remember correctly. Now, you can't do that anymore.

I was just over a year old when the accident happend. Since we live within 10 miles of the plant, my mom got me the hell outta town. My father was a dairy farmer so he stayed behind. Cows don't milk them selves!

I can see the stacks from where I type this now.

We should get together man.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by z06boy

Same here...I live close to a nuclear plant here in the Lake Norman area in NC and boat near it most of the summer and don't really worry about it but every now and then think "what if".

Don't worry, if anything happens, you won't care for long. Just remember if something happens, drive towards it. I'd rather die quickly than slowly from radiation poisoning.

[Bluestreak]

Originally Posted by marko138

We should get together man.

I agree. Check your PM's.

[Porkchop]

Originally Posted by z06boy

Same here...I live close to a nuclear plant here in the Lake Norman area in NC and boat near it most of the summer and don't really worry about it but every now and then think "what if".

I've always thought that from the first time at the lake. I dont know much about the spread of radiation, but i figure that with the lake and how close we are, we'd be dead before we even knew anything.

Originally Posted by Trip

Don't worry, if anything happens, you won't care for long. Just remember if something happens, drive towards it. I'd rather die quickly than slowly from radiation poisoning.

Thats just awful....

When your at work, do you feel weird? Like can you feel the radiation?

[Cutty72]

Ok... first, i know nothing of how a nuke plant works.
From a quick look at that drawing, it looks like the power is created by the steam spinning a turbine?



and back on the original topic (kinda)
marko, do you have to provide your own camera? I figured the company provided them

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Porkchop

Thats just awful....

When your at work, do you feel weird? Like can you feel the radiation?

No, I have never had any recorded radiation exposure. It's really safe now thanks to TMI. I don't really have any worries at work.

Originally Posted by Cutty72

Ok... first, i know nothing of how a nuke plant works.
From a quick look at that drawing, it looks like the power is created by the steam spinning a turbine?

reactor heats up radioactive water at a very high pressure so it's still water. That high pressure water heats up clean water by passing near it in tubes and turns it into steam. That steam turns a turbine, that turbine turns the generator. Generator produces electricity.

[marko138]

Originally Posted by Cutty72

and back on the original topic (kinda)
marko, do you have to provide your own camera? I figured the company provided them

Yeah work provides them. They are Sony Beta-SX cams. Like I said before, they are now several years old, in fact, Sony doesn't even make them anymore...but they still take decent video. I bring my little point and shoot for my own purposes.

Originally Posted by Trip

reactor heats up radioactive water at a very high pressure so it's still water. That high pressure water heats up clean water by passing near it in tubes and turns it into steam. That steam turns a turbine, that turbine turns the generator. Generator produces electricity.

Your av rules.

[Bluestreak]

Speaking of TMI, just read this in our local paper today. The sheer size (510 tons) of these steam generators is amazing.

This will be coming right past my house!

http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/235213

[the chi]

That is too damn cool Marko. Cant say I ever even heard of the event but its interesting seeing the basics of this stuff.

[njchopper87]

Originally Posted by Trip

Transporting fuel is very secretive. I think they do it by trucks, I have never seen and if I have I never knew what they had in them.

They had a TV show about this on Discovery, History or National Geographic. Nuclear waste is transported by trucks and trains, and although they are clearly labeled their routes and transport times are very hush hush. I wish I could remember the show's title; I've seen it on several times.

Everything about nuclear power plants catches my attention too. Nice article and pics.