r/powerplants

Source and more pictures here: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/portfolio160170p1.html

>Built in 1915 and opened in 1925, Richmond Generating Station is a neoclassical cathedral to the might of industry. The vaulted, crumbling roof of the main turbine hall soars 130 feet over what were once the largest turbines in the world. This coal burning power plant has festered in its own corrosive chemical stew since 1985, the year it was abandoned.

The Shippingport Atomic Power Station was the first nuclear powerplant in the United States which provided commercial electricity production. It operated from 1957 to 1982 as a 60 MWe PWR. The final picture is the 1826 MWe Beaver Valley Nuclear Powerstation that sits on the same site today that Shippingport did.

https://towns-and-nature.blogspot.com/2022/09/shippingport-pa-1957-1982-worlds-first.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shippingport_Atomic_Power_Station

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_Valley_Nuclear_Power_Station