Am I being sensationalistic here? Perhaps a tad.
After all, the destruction of the 60 year old towers at the Chapelcross Nuclear Power Plant in Scotland was scheduled, professionally carried out, non-nuclear in nature, and the towers were out of commission not to mention enriched Uranium- and Plutonium-free.
But they blowed up good. They blowed up real good!
Here’s the BBC slideshow, should the YouTube prove too zippy a perspective for your nuclear tower blowing up pleasure.
It was awesome! Are they sure that its Plutonium / Uranium Free?
It is. It may have residual radiation, though. In fact, quite likely it does. I would NOT want to live in a housing estate built on top of that ground, no way. I have too many friends who’ve worked with radioactivity to take it casually.
Yes, definitely there will always be residues for that.
You cannae beat a good party in Scotland.
Yes, but it’s a rare one that registers on the seismometers AND the geiger counters.
Her Grace la Marchioness
Your Grace
Sic transit gloria mundi
Here in Derbyshire (the best of Counties) we have just blown up 3 Cooling Towers
It would have been awesome but the local Martians (a Mercian expression meanng “Health & Safety Inspectors”) insisted on this happening at night when no-one could see it and everyone was abed (except the local Burglars & Health Inspectors on overtime)
The Martians were worried that Drivers on the nearby road might be distracted
… but we have 5 more Cooling Towers nearby – due for demolition and not near a busy Highway
mmmm …. something forward to look
Yr Grace’s obedt servt etc
G Eagle
These are just water cooling towers. They cool hot water that’s come from the power generation process before it goes back through the power station again. I don’t know why they keep being referred to as “nuclear towers”. Yes, they are situated at a nuclear power station but then again, so is the kettle in their canteen and that is not a “nuclear kettle” and their carpark is not a “nuclear carpark”, the employees’ mobile phones are not “nuclear mobile phones” etc etc.
The use of the term “nuclear towers” is sensationalism.
Yes, they are cooling towers: cooling towers for the hot water which is a byproduct of a nuclear reactor. They don’t exist for any other reason. Parking lots do exist for other reasons, as do kettles.
Sensationalism??? On THIS blog? Oh, perish the thought!
Speaking of nuclear sensationalism:
The Windscale Disaster
Just hot air, going out through a chimney. Resulting in…
Just chimneys.
These are not “Nuclear towers” they are just cooling towers with hot water. No radioactive material in them.
Well, they are nothing but rubble now, but thanks for chiming in. Four years later.