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Sellafield snippet

07 Jul 2013 1 489
A long lens view of the Sellafield nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Cumbria. According to Wikipedia: Sellafield houses "the most hazardous industrial building in western Europe" (building B30) and the second-most (building B38), which hold a variety of leftovers from the first Magnox plants in ageing ponds.

Rock Savage Power Station 1

23 Jan 2007 1272
Cotton wool clouds over the gas fired power station at the Ineos Chlor Rock Savage works.

Goodbye Winnington

15 May 2007 1 329
Demolition of the boilers and powerhouse at the Winnington works of Brunner Mond. The coal fired power plant has been replaced by the gas fired CHP plant of which one chimney is visible rear right.

Rugeley Power Station

10 Apr 2007 443
The Rugeley 'B' Power Station was commissioned in 1970 and generates around 1000 megawatts of electricity. The area to the right was once the site of Lea Hall colliery which supplied this and the now demolished 'A' station with coal until it was closed in 1990.

Rock Savage Power Station 2

17 Feb 2006 526
Ineos Chlor works Rock Savage.

Willington cooling towers

30 Jul 2007 329
The only surviving major structures at the site of Willington Power Station are the five cooling towers laid out in an 'L' shaped ground plan. Today's clouds gave a feeling that the plant was still in service.

Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station detail

22 Jun 2007 246
Coal stocks in front of the generating hall on a murky June day.

Shoreham

05 Oct 2007 202
The light drains away.

Kostolac 'B'

11 Nov 2007 264
The Kostolac 'B' thermal power plant in Serbia has a capacity of 640MW. It is supplied with brown coal from a number of opencast mines in the area. This view is taken across the worked-out area of the Klenovic mine which supplies the nearby Kostolac 'A' power station.

Ratcliffe-on-Soar

22 Jun 2007 216
I keep coming back to this place. Best viewed original size .

Pingzhuang

24 Jan 2008 1 223
Pingzhuang power station, Mongolian Autonomous Region.

Rock Savage Power

14 Dec 2007 219
Gas fired power station at the Ineos Chlor Rock Savage plant.

Xinhua

28 Nov 2006 233
A long cold afternoon was spent on the bridge over the China Rail main line waiting for a coal train on the colliery line that never came. Xinhua power station is served by block trains on the colliery system whilst the coal on the train in this view is destined further afield.

Tuzla

19 Nov 2007 3 2 454
Three of the five cooling towers at the Tuzla combined heat and power station. Developed between 1964 and 1978 the plant has a generating capacity of c780MW and supplies heat for Tuzla and Lukavac along with process steam for nearby industries.

Ice sculpture

20 Jan 2008 297
Ice sculpture is big business in the northern parts of China where crowds flock to see the sculptures illuminated at night in a fairground atmosphere. In the town of Manzhouli in the Mongolian Autonomous Region, close to the Russian border, there are two adjacent rival attractions close to the power station which joins in the fun with an ice topping to the cooling tower.

Power station sunset

20 Jan 2008 9 4 507
The third of the train window shots features the coal fired power station at Hailar in the Mongolian Autonomous Region of China as the sun sets on a bitterly cold day.

Fiddlers Ferry

05 Apr 2008 1 251
The ' Cloud Factory ' at Fiddler's Ferry seen from Wigg Island across the Mersey.

West Offaly Power Station

05 Jul 2008 316
Old and new peat fired power stations of the Irish Electricity Supply Board at Shannonbridge on the River Shannon. The old Shannonbridge plant at the rear was closed after an accident in February 2004 when a high-pressure pipe at the plant exploded. The plant was already to be decommissioned as part of the planned closure of all six peat-fuelled stations in the country at that time. Subsequently the new 150 megawatt West Offaly station at the front has been constructed and this is supplied with around 1 million tons of peat annually by Bord na Mona. The old station will be demolished soon. Just above the boats can be seen the rotating spans from the old Shannon Bridge which were placed here when replaced with a fixed concrete span.

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