Sometimes, you can be part of the story.
In 1983, the Seabrook Nuclear Power Complex outside of Portsmouth New Hampshire was still under construction. Since all the business and engineering management was run by MIT graduates, the MIT club of NH was granted a rare, exclusive and extensive inside tour of the entire facility, including the reactor. Decades later, it's still producing power, and I'm finally processing my images.
Twin 600 megawatt reactors
Detail of the reinforcement pattern for the containment vessel
View of the Atlantic seacoast from the entrance to the reactor
Inside the reactor
Coolant pipes pulling in seawater from the Atlantic coast
Control rods in place above the reactor vessel. As should be obvious, fuel has not been loaded.
What it's all about - turning a 600 megawatt generator at a high rate of speed
Building holding generator #2
Building holding generator #1 - nearly complete
Control complex - the only place we were not allowed to enter.
Details of containment vessel #2
