Long Island's decommissioned nuclear power plant

5 comments

• HansHamster 1 hour ago
  Interesting. You can see the building from the beach and I always wondered what's inside. And while it's the only (decommissioned) nuclear power plant on Long Island, it's not the only nuclear reactor. There was also the High Flux Beam Reactor at BNL that was decommissioned in the 90s:

  https://www.bnl.gov/hfbr/

  https://www.bnl.gov/hfbr/hfbr-complex.php

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  • hgoel 16 minutes ago
    Oh, so that's what that building was!
• wsor4035 19 minutes ago
  if you want to see a video (9 years ago) from inside the plant, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONEm1ph3MP4 - the top comment is also interesting
• epistasis 1 hour ago
  I think the control panels are as compelling as the big industrial rooms. Fantastic pictures!
• vlian2088 1 hour ago
  why wasn't it scrapped? it's not like all that steel is irradiated.
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  • epistasis 37 minutes ago
    Probably not economical to do that... Parts that could be sold, like 2/3 of the turbines, apparently were!

    As for the parts of the steel that do get irradiated, anybody interested in seeing a flame cutter going to town to Blue Oyster Cult? I think so...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Jt8EMF5Lg

    I'd love to see some videos of robotic diamond wire cutters on the biological shield concrete, but haven't found any of those.

    Edit: found one! From Sweden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc5jdvc1yD8
• rkagerer 5 days ago
  The control panels that fuse schematics and buttons and indicators feel like a peak of design philosophy.

  Intuitive, readily interpretable at a glance, spatially oriented (instead of tucked behind layers of tabs and recursive settings).