Explosive Demolition of Cooling Tower

[PowerEngineer]

Here are some videos of the "Trojan Implosion" of the natural draft cooling tower. The plant was permanently closed in 1993. The reactor's gone and buried at Hanford. The spent fuel is dry-casked onsite.

Close-Up View

TV news story with different angles

Now for the clean-up....

 

[RU482]

wow, scenic nuke plant

 

[HardcoreRobot]

that speaker should be a politician (not the newsdude)

 

[FoBoT]

i saw that on tv today

i grew up around that area, i remember seeing that tower from the WA side of the river all the time

 

[ForumMaster]

wonder why they took that plant offline. anyway, cool.