publicity photo: happy couple in front of the Metsamor nuclear power plant
in front of the metsamor nuclear power plant
17 Wednesday Apr 2013
Posted in Armenia, photograph
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The PR department must have been cracking up when they did this. Why not a postcard for genetically altered chicken farms where the chickens are so breast heavy they fall in their own excrement and drown…and they take the dead ones out by the front-loader load and dump them? The market is wide open…Ritalin…Thalidimide, or however it’s spelled, dictators, bad films, Dancing with the Stars…
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Mutant radiation chickens need love too! Maybe that’s what Gonzo from the Muppet show was, a Chernobyl chicken. Hmmm …
The big company in Wash is Lynden. They finance the operations, then forbid the operators to allow film crews or interviews. The woman who I saw let the gory details out lost her franchise. People do not like to see the details of the crap they eat.
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Yes, it is far easier to turn one’s head to the junk we put into our bodies, reminds me of Yul Brynner’s heart wrenching “Now that I’m gone, I tell you: don’t smoke. Whatever you do, just don’t smoke.” Ai, Yul!
Used to drive by one of these at Satsop in Washington. The Washington Public Power Supply (WPPS, or Woops !) had three of them, all kinds of funding problems, a bit of graft, and ended up creating no power. Nice concrete monuments to government corruption and waste.
On my Way…
Used to drive by one of these at Satsop in Washington. Washington Public Power Supply, or WooPS, lost all the money, and left nothing but concrete monuments to greed and graft. But, we got Hanford !
On my Way…
I used to drive by one of these at Satsop. The Washington Public Power Supply, or WooPS, ended up losing all the money, screwing up the plants, and left Nuke Plant National Monument. But, we got Hanford !
On my Way….
So there is the cone and structure of a nuclear power plant in Washington but it was never finished? What do they do with it now? I wonder what the market for condos in abandoned plants like that would be? In L.A. they turned all the land that once was El Toro air base into condos, but they kept one of the old zeppelin hangers (which looks like a 6 story quonset hut), giving the landscape an odd appearance of a mother ship parked in the middle of suburbia.
Just a monument to stupidity and corruption. They made a new law about voting on such matters, but now they won’t do it…too much oversight.
On my Way…
I wonder if in a 1000 years from now if our ancestors will look upon these crumbling nuclear plants in the same way we look at the pyramids, mysterious structures that aren’t immediately obvious what they were used for but give archaeologists endless hours of speculation. Or maybe they’ll be seen as landing pads for alien spaceships (in the same way some people see the Aztec pyramids) … unfortunately I won’t be around when it happens (I suppose)
Pessimistic of you. Erik von Danniken’s progeny will have work. It was such a big deal. Government in Wash did this with no public vote, then the concrete company was found to be a relative, and all the foundations crumbled. New contractor re-built, screwed it up again. Left two half built, and worked on Hanford, which became the dumping ground for nuclear waste. Think there’s too much publicity for any of that future mystery stuff, unless all paper records are lost. Somply a monument to greed and an uneducted public who just wants to turn on their lights with a flick of the switch. And we got flicked.
On my Way…
It is hard to imagine a world-wide cataclysm that would keep some aspect of humanity alive and yet strip them of all knowledge we’ve accumulated over the years. Yet, if tomorrow the Internet was completely destroyed (which, from what I’ve read, is amazingly easy to do, an elderly woman in the country of Georgia accidentally severed all Internet connections to Georgie, Armenia and Azerbaijan when, while working in her garden, she cut the single cable that connected those countries to the outside world) I suppose people might feel as if we were in some technological end-of-times, like archeologists lamenting that there weren’t more cheat-sheets left behind by the ancient Egyptians as to how to read their language.