notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.

National Geographic: Is Armenia’s Nuclear Plant the World’s Most Dangerous? (via):

The Metsamor power station is one of a mere handful of remaining nuclear reactors of its kind that were built without primary containment structures. All five of these first-generation water-moderated Soviet units are past or near their original retirement ages, but one salient fact sets Armenia’s reactor apart from the four in Russia.

Metsamor lies on some of Earth’s most earthquake-prone terrain.

(I note the article carries lots of advertising for an oil company. Hmm.)

(Source: google.com)

Three Mile Island, circa 1980, from Postcards of Mushroom Clouds at Slate.

fuckyeahcoolingtowers:

Cooling tower of the experimental THTR-300 thorium reactor, Germany (via)

berkeley nuclear power station by smallritual on Flickr.

Apparently, “only the sealed reactor core [is] left now”.

lomokev:

Luca Zanie (via Energy meets art with photographer Luca Zanier (Wired UK))

“Here we are at the heart of the nuclear-power plant,” says Zanier. “I visited many of the control rooms – most were dull, but this one is special and strange. A lot of my friends asked me whether I had manipulated this photograph.”

That’s nice, that.