Three Mile Island (pics!)

[Trip]

Originally Posted by marko138

Fail? How so? This whole event was a big dog and pony show for 'how safe' the industry is now. There was absolutely no news value. I've always been fasicinated by TMI...so it was cool for me to see it up close and be on the island.

It fails cause it reminds me about work and I am at home already for the weekend. I press the off button when I leave work.

TMI is an interesting event. I have had training on it and how it relates to my plant.

[marko138]

Originally Posted by Trip

It fails cause it reminds me about work and I am at home already for the weekend. I press the off button when I leave work.

TMI is an interesting event. I have had training on it and how it relates to my plant.

Oh...sorry then.


TMI is cool...but they didn't show us anything cool. Except the training simulator. But I wanted to see the real thing.


Here's a fun fact...TMI has it's own vegetable garden that they use to test radiation levels.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by marko138

Oh...sorry then.


TMI is cool...but they didn't show us anything cool. Except the training simulator. But I wanted to see the real thing.


Here's a fun fact...TMI has it's own vegetable garden that they use to test radiation levels.

The real control room would look exactly like the training sim. The nuke industry goes through great detail to make it look the same. Nuke plants are really interesting places and would be awesome to play paintball in. It looks like something out of first person shooter games inside them.

I wonder how hot unit 2 is.

[Trip]

This is where you don't want to go.

[marko138]

Originally Posted by Trip

The real control room would look exactly like the training sim. The nuke industry goes through great detail to make it look the same. Nuke plants are really interesting places and would be awesome to play paintball in. It looks like something out of first person shooter games inside them.

I wonder how hot unit 2 is.

Yeah they told us it's identical. They did an alarm deal with us there. I'll see if I can find the link to the vid.

And not knowing much about nuclear power...would unit 2 still be fucked up? And they say it's "permanently" shut down. Can it not be fixed and re used?

Originally Posted by Trip

This is where you don't want to go.

Yeah...they told us thats where the shit is. I wanted to go there.

[marko138]

Here's a link to the story I did on Wednesday. You can see the control room toward the beginning.


http://cfc.whtm.com/videoondemand.cfm?id=35495

[Trip]

Originally Posted by marko138

Yeah they told us it's identical. They did an alarm deal with us there. I'll see if I can find the link to the vid.

And not knowing much about nuclear power...would unit 2 still be fucked up? And they say it's "permanently" shut down. Can it not be fixed and re used?

Yeah...they told us thats where the shit is. I wanted to go there.

Unit 2 would still be hot, don't know how clean they got it, they had one hell of an accident. They probably cleaned up some, but it's pretty much a tomb for that reactor.

There isn't much to see in the reactor building. It's really tight quarters and most everything in there is really fuckin hot and you don't want to get near it for a long time unless you want to die of radiation poisoning. I go out of my way to try to stay out of them at my plant. The spent fuel pools are cool though because the water is a creepy bluish color. I have gotten to climb all in a reactor building because only one of our units is active and the other never got finished cause of TMI, so we get to do walkdowns on the nonactive unit to learn about the other unit where you can't spend time in it. They are starting to rebuild it now though.

[marko138]

Originally Posted by Trip

Unit 2 would still be hot, don't know how clean they got it, they had one hell of an accident. They probably cleaned up some, but it's pretty much a tomb for that reactor.

There isn't much to see in the reactor building. It's really tight quarters and most everything in there is really fuckin hot and you don't want to get near it for a long time unless you want to die of radiation poisoning. I go out of my way to try to stay out of them at my plant. The spent fuel pools are cool though because the water is a creepy bluish color. I have gotten to climb all in a reactor building because only one of our units is active and the other never got finished cause of TMI, so we get to do walkdowns on the nonactive unit to learn about the other unit where you can't spend time in it. They are starting to rebuild it now though.

Interesting. I didnt' know that. Would unit 2 be like super hot at this point? Liker several thousand degrees or what?

[Trip]

Originally Posted by marko138

Here's a link to the story I did on Wednesday. You can see the control room toward the beginning.


http://cfc.whtm.com/videoondemand.cfm?id=35495

Oh shit they are replacing the steam generators. That's gonna suck, we just did that a few years ago. This is one of the fuckin biggest cranes I have ever seen and will ever see in person.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by marko138

Interesting. I didnt' know that. Would unit 2 be like super hot at this point? Liker several thousand degrees or what?

not temperature hot, radiation hot. It's a slang term we use to describe how radioactive something is.