Anchoring next to a nuclear reactor

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  • MarkBMarkB Member Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice. Frodo which company do you work for, I assume the utility?

    My company has a nuclear engineering division. Work for Hatch. We are working on some of the nuclear refurbishment projects in Ontario.

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  • randy56randy56 Member Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭✭✭
    you look aglow LOL, that is some interesting stuff.
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  • LaReaLaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,057 mod
    Interesting update about Fort Belvoir's retired nuke plant, right next to my favorite anchorage ... they're taking it away, bit by bit.  

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/02/01/how-do-you-dismantle-nuclear-power-plant-very-very-carefully/?utm_term=.35e41f873a9d
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  • randy56randy56 Member Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭✭✭
    interesting read 1957 was the beginning, i did not realize we started nuke's that long ago. what a man learns on a boating forum. 
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  • Dream_InnDream_Inn Member, Moderator Posts: 7,919 mod
    That's an interesting read.  Hard to believe it was not very long after Hiroshima.

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  • Cableguy GregCableguy Greg Member Posts: 5,077 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The original one at Shippingport that @nhsd mentioned above also went online in 1957. It has been decommissioned and there is another plant at the same site. Where I live, north of Pittsburgh, I am due east of the cooling towers. In the winter, if the weather and wind is just right, we get snowfall from the plant. There have been times that we get 4-5 inches of snow and when you go 5 miles north or south, they don't have any snow at all.


    My in-laws live close to Clinton Lake in Illinois. They boat there all the time because of the warm discharge water. They have a great extended boating season because of that plant.
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  • LaReaLaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,057 mod
    Huh.  Shippingport went online only six months after Belvoir.  Must have been exciting times for the pioneers in that industry.  I wonder if @frodo13056 is still around ...
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  • Black_DiamondBlack_Diamond Member Posts: 5,439 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No dress-out in 1987?  guessing it had not been activated yet. I’ve been in the Waterford III facility many times myself. 

    All those plants are LPWC units I believe?  GE designs. 

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  • boatman37boatman37 Member Posts: 810 ✭✭✭
    Yep. We are a few miles upriver from Shippingport.
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  • rasburyrasbury Member Posts: 8,925 ✭✭✭✭✭
    speaking of restricted boating, we were up on Lake George on the St. Johns River and the east side is a training range for the Navy. We were OK in the water where we were at, but, 2 pilots who I guess were bored with dropping on targets thought they would take a run at us! There were a few boats on a trip north....anyway, they would come in low like you see in the movies on a strafing run, pull off and then come around again...did that about 3 times and then came in beside us, wagged their wings and flew off.  They were close enough I could see them waive! It was awesome! 
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  • Glassguy54Glassguy54 Member Posts: 588 ✭✭✭
    The Mexican Air Force did that to us one time on Cozumel Island when we were enjoying adult beverages at Bob Marley's Bar. Pretty cool.
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  • Dream_InnDream_Inn Member, Moderator Posts: 7,919 mod
    Ras, you may even have been a practice target.  I'll say there have been many times where we (at work) have practiced on boats as targets of opportunities that are in the bay.  & using one with AIS data, you have ground truth as well! :)

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  • rasburyrasbury Member Posts: 8,925 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Oh I'm sure that was what they were doing...
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