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blitzburgh55

(411 posts)
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 10:15 AM Jan 2013

Nuclear winter: Shippingport's plants send snow downwind

Sometimes, you don’t need a lake to get lake-effect snow. A complex of power plants will do the job just as well.
Meteorologists at the National Weather Service’s office in Moon Township noticed something Tuesday night they apparently don’t see too often — a snow band, stretching for miles from western Beaver County across northern Allegheny County.
The band, which dropped a quick inch of snow in some places, didn’t originate at Lake Erie.
It came from the power plants at Shippingport.

http://www.timesonline.com/news/local_news/nuclear-winter-shippingport-s-plants-send-snow-downwind/article_aae5111d-6c4f-5a83-9d84-ba16573960b6.html

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Nuclear winter: Shippingport's plants send snow downwind (Original Post) blitzburgh55 Jan 2013 OP
Oh Boy! We can create our own weather now! lunatica Jan 2013 #1
My husband worked at Shippingport back in the mid-70's livetohike Jan 2013 #2
Nuclear Plants are infamous for their water consumption... Junkdrawer Jan 2013 #3

livetohike

(22,084 posts)
2. My husband worked at Shippingport back in the mid-70's
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 10:21 AM
Jan 2013

The plant he worked at has been shut down. I'll have to send him this article

Junkdrawer

(27,993 posts)
3. Nuclear Plants are infamous for their water consumption...
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 10:22 AM
Jan 2013

As we go further into drought, old nuclear plants are running into more and more water limitations.

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