Long Island's decommissioned nuclear power plant

(nickcarr.com)

46 points | by mkmk 6 days ago

4 comments

  • HansHamster 45 minutes 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

  • epistasis 51 minutes ago
    I think the control panels are as compelling as the big industrial rooms. Fantastic pictures!
  • vlian2088 16 minutes ago
    why wasn't it scrapped? it's not like all that steel is irradiated.
  • 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).