My dad shot some Super-8mm film of me when I was 8 or 9 years old as I played at the end of the road on which that my aunt used to live, in Londonderry Township if memory serves.
She lived in Pennsylvania at the time and Three Mile Island was quite clearly looming over me, the summer before it had a partial meltdown emergency in the late 70's. (March '79, according to Wikipedia.)
After seeing this picture, I need to find that reel and digitize it....
I spent a week in Phili working in a coal powered electrical plant. The house nearest the plant was being repainted at the company's expense because something at the plant went wrong and the exhaust left unburnt carbon deposits all over it. Apparently this happened every time something got into the exhaust that shouldn't have, and the guy who owned the house liked it because every three months or so he got to change the colour of his house.
Meaning that his house is being constantly bathed in exhaust from the plant. *Boggle*
Small risk of exposure to radiation: scary. Being exposed to exhaust fumes from five four-story high generators every single day: worse.
I know that that's really terrible and stuff, and omg having to live in the shadow of those, but... *tiny voice* cooling towers just seem so frickin' neat.
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Date: 2008-10-15 04:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-15 05:00 pm (UTC)In that industrial fast moving cancer kinda way.
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Date: 2008-10-15 05:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-15 05:58 pm (UTC)She lived in Pennsylvania at the time and Three Mile Island was quite clearly looming over me, the summer before it had a partial meltdown emergency in the late 70's. (March '79, according to Wikipedia.)
After seeing this picture, I need to find that reel and digitize it....
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Date: 2008-10-15 06:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-15 06:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-15 06:23 pm (UTC)Meaning that his house is being constantly bathed in exhaust from the plant. *Boggle*
Small risk of exposure to radiation: scary. Being exposed to exhaust fumes from five four-story high generators every single day: worse.
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Date: 2008-10-15 06:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-15 06:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-15 08:59 pm (UTC)(Sparkling.)
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Date: 2008-10-15 09:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-16 03:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-16 09:02 am (UTC)I like the dirt/growth/corrosion on the towers the most, and how its all divided on a grid.
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Date: 2008-10-16 11:23 am (UTC)Germany's looking to be nuclear free by 2021, but they're still the 4th biggest producer of nuclear power.
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Date: 2008-10-16 11:49 am (UTC)I don't recognize the one in yours, but I'm really bad at chemistry.
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I'm not the very best at chemistry either. Some I know and some are just a big WTF?
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Date: 2008-10-16 12:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-16 01:44 pm (UTC)