|
| Home | Currently | Tadpoles | Pictures | Stuff |
| Page Path: Home / Pictures / locations / WA / SatsopStation / default.aspx |
| This Page is a PRE Phase 9 Page, so the formatting might not be on par with the newer pages in the site. |
| Satsop Power Generation Station | ||
|
< Back to WA |
||
 |
 |
|
|
The Satsop Power Generation Station is an example of what is wrong with
Washington, and the country as a whole... we let the whack jobs run the
place. Construction of "WNP 3 and 5" was begun in 1977. 8 nuclear stations were being built around the state, in the hopes that the state would enjoy cheap power, and be able to profit from sales to other states. Complaints by ill-informed "Environmentalists" continually ran the cost of the Washington Utility Power System projects higher and higher, and eventually, the state lost interest, and the project failed. It was a grand scheme, but when the project went bankrupt in 1983, all work stopped... the state now has monuments spread around that show the ineptitude of its leadership. |
 |
|
 |
||
 |
 |
|
 |
Work literally stopped, so quickly that equipment was
abandoned in place. One of the containment domes had not
been sealed or capped, and the hole for the steam generator
and reactor insertion remains, the exposed rebar rusted. The completed dome was, in fact, completed. It was ready to enter the testing phase for the startup process, and it was when the applications were sent to the state and federal nuclear commissions that the "enviro-wackos" really kicked in, and the project was mired in litigation. In 1983, the project was officially halted. |
|
 |
 |
|
 |
||
|
The completed unit was 'pickled'. The WNP3 Project remained
officially on hold until 1998, after several attempts to restart the
construction and startup failed to be successful, and the site was turned
over to Grays Harbor, and the nuclear portion of the project was
officially cancelled by Governor Locke.
Thankfully for the Satsop plant, the story doesn't end there. A natural gas steam plant was installed on the site, as well as a "technology center", utilizing the hi-speed lines that were run out to the site for the Nuclear Plant's operations center. |
 |
|
 |
 |
|
|
The steam generator remains in its containment dome, but pickling efforts
ceased in 1999. No nuclear material was ever transferred to the
site. In 2002, during the power shortages, talk was made of restoring the plant license for the completed unit, but no movement was made on that effort. The plant remains a victim of shortsightedness, and lack of backbone on the part of the state. Natural gas was very cheap in the mid 1980's, and the effort to thwart the endless lawsuits of the "environmentalists" opposing the project just because its "Nuclear". Not that I have an opinion, or anything... :-) |
 |
|
 |
||
|
||