Your friendly neighborhood nuclear reactor. This reactor is retired but there is a shiny new building just down the complex. Making nuclear products without the same public visibility? This is the TROJAN nuclear reactor, decommissioned November 1992 located on U.S. highway 30, approximately 12 miles north of St. Helens. (Someone asked). In 2006 the cooling tower (shown here) was demolished.
Thancks for the pichur. This will help me get an A on my siense report
jessica
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006 at 20:00:19
the black and white image of reactor make me nostalgic . it is looking so calm like a sages sitting and chanting the prayer
rakesh sharma (india)
Friday, July 7th, 2006 at 04:14:16
This Picture made my project glow!!!! Thanks a lot
Nikhil
Friday, October 20th, 2006 at 06:14:06
This picture is so magnificent it makes you want to know whats inside it and what it looks like in there......
bobby
Monday, October 30th, 2006 at 17:50:23
wow, killer shot. I find nuclear plants to be fascinating.
Ryou
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 at 23:02:02
thank u because my project was succesful due to this picture.thanks a lot.
harish
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007 at 04:29:11
Ok, so what in the picture is actually the nuclear reactor?
Sean
Sunday, April 15th, 2007 at 14:25:45
"Thancks for the pichur. This will help me get an A on my siense report" HAHAHAAHHAAH!!!! LOL!!
I dearly hope you're in 2nd grade or lower, or else our education is too far gone. Anyways, the big squeezed-cylinder buildings (the focus of the picture),which are often used as symbols of nuclear power, are actually the cooling towers of nuclear power plants. Its purpose is only to cool circulated water that is then sent back to the core. Much of the super-heated water is lost as steam during this process (the stuff coming out of the towers is water vapor, not smoke). The nuclear reactor itself is a much smaller building with a round top, which is where nuclear fission actually takes place.
Mike
Monday, March 17th, 2008 at 18:03:05
