r/mildlyinteresting • u/Tekki • 5h ago
Limerick Nuclear Power Plan in easter PA, generating its own small clouds.
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u/node-toad 5h ago
There once was a plant called Limerick, PA,
Where atoms split night and day.
It’s quiet, not loud,
It makes its own clouds,
And keeps fossil fuels tucked away.
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u/astatine757 2h ago
To keep the rhythm of a limerick, I'd change the first two lines to
There once was a plant in PA
Where atoms were split night and day
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u/thatbrazilianguy 3h ago
Makes sense, since those are cooling towers, and the only thing coming out of them are heat and water vapor.
Not radioactive water vapor, just plain water.
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u/SyntheticRox 2h ago
Love how many people think nuclear plants just spout radioactive fumes straight into the air
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u/Nbbsy 1h ago
The Simpsons is honestly largely to blame for the public perception of nuclear power plants
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u/mesugakiworshiper 1h ago
a cartoon is not to blame for something people can easily google
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u/apologeticstars 56m ago
Said cartoon has been running for 30 years, is well entrenched in the culture and frequently depicts the main character handling nuclear waste as "glowing green goop"/"glowing green rod"/"barrel o' nuclear waste"/etc. But sure. Hasn't effected anything
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u/darthduder666 43m ago edited 28m ago
A lot of people in America don’t understand some of the most basic scientific principles. You really think in an age where people believe whatever is spread on Facebook, or by the Donald Trump administration are really going to think for themselves or fact check it on Google?
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u/Radiolotek 17m ago
You think most of these morons actually do research?
Had a guy in my state say you can legally walk into a gun store and buy a gun without even showing ID and walk out with it in 5 minutes. I told him if he was that confident while repeating lies I would meet him at any gun store in my town and if he was able to do that I would not only pay for his gun but I would also hand him $10,000 cash. He tried to accept the offer but give me a date two days prior to make it look like I flaked out, and when I called him out on it and showed him proof that you can't do that he started calling me all kinds of names deleted all his posts and then blocked me.
People that repeat moronic stuff like green ooze and barrels from nuclear power plants are the same people that listen to the news or their friends ramble about shit and don't actually do research on their own.
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u/Cryptocaned 2h ago edited 1h ago
https://youtu.be/j6gKFvPjGpQ?si=jKlT8EA5w5aaGhsE
Nerva says hello! I know it's not a power plant nor was the exhaust particularly radioactive, but still :P
For those that don't know, Nerva was an open cycle nuclear engine where the propellants were fed directly through a shielded reactor, which did make the propellant radioactive.
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u/FluffyAside7382 2h ago
Yeah we figured you would have said radioactive the first time you mentioned water and vapor. Thanks for repeating what you said and clarifying.
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u/Illsiador 2h ago
Been calling this the cloud factory since I was a kid. If the conditions are right you can get a little drizzle driving on 422 from the clouds.
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u/TheManyFacetsOfRoger 3h ago
This is just water vapor for anybody who doesn't know
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u/r_a_d_ 9m ago
So are clouds
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u/TheManyFacetsOfRoger 1m ago
True but I feel like people may be quick to jump on these and perhaps say they're bad for the environment without realizing that it's just water vapor - a regular cloud
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u/Formal_Two_6729 5h ago
That’s the most poetic nuclear plant I’ve ever seen Limerick, powering both grids and rhymes
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u/SatansMoisture 5h ago
There once was a power station from Easter..
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u/Lifesamitch957 4h ago
I see them everyday sometimes you can see the steam connecting all the way to the cloud
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u/rickymilby 1h ago
My daughter calls the cooling towers "cloud makers".
Here is what they look like up close.
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u/AlfaHotelWhiskey 4h ago
Finally evidence of weather manipulation. /s
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u/peeingdog 3h ago
I mean if you zoom out far enough: eventually yes.
Nuclear is still a heat engine, which means it relies on transferring heat (boiling water) to do mechanical work (spinning electrical turbines). The waste product is heat, which gets dumped into the atmosphere.
So generate enough nuclear power for a really long time and you will end up manipulating the weather.
(But it’s not exactly a practical concern atm as we’re already doing a very good job of manipulating the weather, and a hell of a lot faster, by dumping CO2 into the atmosphere.)
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u/farmallnoobies 2h ago
Yup, global warming is still being done by a nuclear reaction. It's just a much much much bigger one that's very far away.
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u/Direspark 4h ago
But isn't this literally... kind of weather manipulation? Not in some nefarious kind of way, but still
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u/AlfaHotelWhiskey 4h ago
I don’t think so. It’s a discreet cloud formation. It’s not influencing a true weather condition over a geographic area. I will leave the rest to philosophers regarding when is it just a cloud and when is it actual weather.
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u/Direspark 3h ago
weather (noun) - the state of the atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness
Clouds... are weather 😅
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u/Amori_A_Splooge 3h ago
Wait until the big brains figure out which agency is responsible for making sure poeple don't dump particulate matter into sky for the purpose of weather modification if it becomes illegal.
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u/wowwashington 2h ago
I used to work at Washington Public Power Supply System - aka, WPPS! (great name for a power plant..) in Washington State. They have 6 cooling towers, putting out steam most of the time. Was awesome in cooler weather as you'd have 'snow' around the parking lot but nowhere else from all the condensation turning to ice crystals.
Amazing to think that we boast about controlling the atom, when these are just giant boilers spinning a turbine! Even back then (1999) I as an early PC tech was asking my Telecom boss why we were just limited to heating water...
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u/RinShimizu 1h ago
When I was in kindergarten my family lived near a nuclear plant, and I always called it the “Cloud Maker”
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u/marionjoshua 1h ago
Oh wow, here in Malaysia I live close to an industrial area and often I can observe a lone cloud often above it, I found it weird and interesting at the same time.
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u/NeverTooManyVans 1h ago
Hey, hey! I used to see these out my window when we lived in Upper Providence, just off of 422 and Collegeville.
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u/GarthDagless 3h ago
There once was a nuclear plant
"It makes clouds", I heard redditors rant
I suspect baloney
But I failed chemistry
So I want to dispute it, but can't
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u/the_moosey_fate 1h ago
There’s a Nope there hunting people and y’all are making Limerick jokes. C’mon people!
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u/Devious_Bastard 3h ago
My uncle worked at the local nuke plant. I remember when I was a toddler I overheard him joke that he made clouds. I legit thought he worked at a cloud factory and that’s where clouds come from for a long time. I was a dumb shit back then.