It’s a weird experience, crawling over the guts of one of the marvels of the atomic age, smelling the thing […] all the while knowing that although it’s one of the safest and most energy-efficient civilian power reactors ever built it’s a a technological dead-end, that there won’t be any more of them, and that when it shuts down in thirty or forty years’ time this colossal collision between space age physics and victorian plumbing will be relegated to a footnote in the history books. “Energy too cheap to meter” it ain’t, but as a symbol of what we can achieve through engineering it’s hard to beat.
Great article on an Advanced Gas cooled Reactor (AGR), the Concorde of nuclear reactors, located at Torness on the Scottish coast
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