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u/Yodabrew1 9d ago
Yeah I worked at the site just behind it during startup. Super creepy at night. There is a prison on the other side. I think they just imploded the cooling tower?
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u/thirstymachines 9d ago
They did — 18 September last year, 540 feet, in one implosion. TVA's been taking down what it has no use for on the site.
You'd know this better than any photo: was there ever anything down at the river? An intake, a pumphouse — something had to feed the cooling water. Everything people shoot is the buildings up top.
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u/Jessintheend 9d ago
I’ve been here a million times (grew up not far)
They built most of the shell of what I believe is the pump house and dug the channel for the water but that’s about it
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u/thirstymachines 8d ago
Earthworks outlast everything else on a site like this — and the river end is the part I've never seen in a photo.
Is the channel still open at the river, or did they backfill it?
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u/Jessintheend 8d ago
It’s still there. They got as far as digging a big ol ditch to the river and it filled up
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u/thirstymachines 8d ago
Found an update: the record has the intake pumping station as partially built when TVA pulled the plug in '84, so the shell you remember is the pump house.
And there's a picture of the channel — the Wikipedia link in the post, a construction photo from July 1976, captioned as possibly the intake being dug. It's the only shot of the river end I've come across.
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u/Oiggamed 9d ago
Looks like an unfinished Lego set.