post a photo, any photo youve taken, doesnt have to be a good one..

[snickerd3]

 

[Road Guy]

See if u can find something peculiar in this photo..

 

[matt267 PE]

Is that a bear?

 

[Road Guy]

Bison. What was cool is that it just stepped out of the woods right as I took the picture

 

[matt267 PE]

Did the kids notice?

 

[Dleg]

What, not the giant python in the grass behind them??

 

[PE Stamps]

Wake Island

 

[akwooly]

Bison. What was cool is that it just stepped out of the woods right as I took the picture

bison photobomb

 

[Road Guy]

the kids did notice it, it was really cool it just popped out of the woods like that, this was a hike we did in western Yellowstone was a long one, deep off of the pavement, didn't see a soul the entire time..

 

[SNAPE/SMOTT PE]

This....I laughed watching them "flutter" behind the truck!

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[Flyer_PE]

When they built it, it was the largest dual unit commercial nuclear power plant on the planet.

It's now the largest dual unit nuclear power plant to be decommissioned.

 

[einatlanta PhD PE]

is that Crystal River in Florida?

 

[Flyer_PE]

^Zion Station in Northern Illinois.

 

[knight1fox3]

^Zion Station in Northern Illinois.

Zion was larger than Exelon? :huh:

 

[Flyer_PE]

At the time Zion was built, it was the highest output dual unit site in the world.  LaSalle, Byron, and

Zion was larger than Exelon? :huh:

[COLOR= rgb(39, 42, 52)]At the time Zion was built, it was the highest output dual unit site in the world. It was one of the first 4-loop PWRs.  The earlier units were 2-loop like Point Beach with lower MWe output. LaSalle, Byron, and Braidwood were built later. [/COLOR]

[COLOR= rgb(39, 42, 52)]Another interesting bit of trivia is that Zion was ininitally planned as a six unit site.  The other four units ended up being split between Byron and Braidwood stations.[/COLOR]

 

[MetsFan]

This....I laughed watching them "flutter" behind the truck!

This would've been perfect with Toy Story toys.

 

[snickerd3]

At the time Zion was built, it was the highest output dual unit site in the world.  LaSalle, Byron, and

[COLOR= rgb(39, 42, 52)]At the time Zion was built, it was the highest output dual unit site in the world. It was one of the first 4-loop PWRs.  The earlier units were 2-loop like Point Beach with lower MWe output. LaSalle, Byron, and Braidwood were built later. [/COLOR]

[COLOR= rgb(39, 42, 52)]Another interesting bit of trivia is that Zion was ininitally planned as a six unit site.  The other four units ended up being split between Byron and Braidwood stations.[/COLOR]

So how is nuclear so expensive that without additional subsidies the clinton reactor will be closing next year?    seems like a bad business model if you are operating at a huge loss for years, but yet other survive.    

 

[Flyer_PE]

So how is nuclear so expensive that without additional subsidies the clinton reactor will be closing next year?    seems like a bad business model if you are operating at a huge loss for years, but yet other survive.    

The wholesale price of electricity is very low right now due to the abundance of natural gas.  The subsidies being applied to wind are also keeping it's cost artificially low.  These plants are now merchant plants which is a completly different financial world than existed when they were built.

Quad Cities is an older station that's going to need extensive retrofitting to continue long term operations.  It's been on the short list of plants to be shut down for quite a while.  Clinton is a single unit facility.  The support organization for a single unit plant isn't much smaller than that required for a multiple unit site so the cost per MWe is higher there than at the dual unit sites with similar output per unit (LaSalle, Byron, Braidwood).

 

[Supe]

Flyer hit the nail on the head.

 

[envirotex]

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