Anchoring next to a nuclear reactor

MarkB

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.

randy56

you look aglow LOL, that is some interesting stuff.

LaRea

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

randy56

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. 

Dream_Inn

That's an interesting read.  Hard to believe it was not very long after Hiroshima.

Cableguy Greg

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shippingport_Atomic_Power_Station

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.

LaRea

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 ...

Black_Diamond

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. 

boatman37

Yep. We are a few miles upriver from Shippingport.

rasbury

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! 

Glassguy54

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.

Dream_Inn

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!

rasbury

Oh I'm sure that was what they were doing...