Long Island's decommissioned nuclear power plant

Interesting. You can see the building from the beach and I always wondered what's inside. And while it's the only (decommissioned) nuclear power plant on Long Island, it's not the only nuclear reactor. There was also the High Flux Beam Reactor at BNL that was decommissioned in the 90s:

https://www.bnl.gov/hfbr/

https://www.bnl.gov/hfbr/hfbr-complex.php

Anybody recognize the terminal on the desk? I've asked two LLMs and they were both very wrong.

https://i0.wp.com/nickcarr.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/IM...

If you want to see the inside of another nuclear plant that New York decided to turn off, Radioactive Drew has a good tour of Indian Point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJSH1_GH1HQ

What a depressing outcome. This could have powered hundreds of thousands of households, cheaply, without adding any CO2 to the atmosphere.

(2014)

from the article: "Originally published February 26, 2014."

Not mentioned, but later on a gas turbine was built on site with some of the existing transmission infrastructure, and there’s also the Cross Sound Cable there, coming over from New Haven and connecting NYISO and ISO-NE.

Possibly not mentioned because some of the adjacent site is still very much used due to those facilities, making it even easier to be caught trespassing.

I grew up there. I was maybe 14 so I have some memory of how worked up the community was. I remember people talking about building a bridge to CT since there would be no other way to get people off the island. It was such a fierce time then, nothing compared to nowadays about seemingly anything though.

Has the site also been decommissioned - or just hugged - none of the images are loading for me at the moment

it's a little bit weird for a long abandoned site with all lights powered on.

I think the control panels are as compelling as the big industrial rooms. Fantastic pictures!

if you want to see a video (9 years ago) from inside the plant, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONEm1ph3MP4 - the top comment is also interesting

why wasn't it scrapped? it's not like all that steel is irradiated.

The control panels that fuse schematics and buttons and indicators feel like a peak of design philosophy.

Intuitive, readily interpretable at a glance, spatially oriented (instead of tucked behind layers of tabs and recursive settings).