Nuclear Power Anyone?

So I have been hording these Nuclear Power kits for some time, I have 3 so I can build a fairly good size power plant. heres what I have put togethet so far.

I have a few other kits I have collected to go with this power plant, so It will be a major complex on my layout, and hopefully I can workin a few tracks to switch those Nuclear cars into that I have been collecting too.

The plant will end up in another spot, I just set up what I have in this empty spot for now.

 

Darn, That McDonald's must really be busy, if it needs its own nuclear power plant to supply electricity.:question:

That will be different than most power plants on a model railroad, I for one, will be looking for future postings.

 

With every thing that is going on in that photo, you picked out the McDonald's, you must have been hungry.

Lets see, UFO, Screw water tower, nuclear missle, giant phone with a cord!!!

 

I was wondering, also, about the 1930s-40s brick buildings and old style water tank - should be an interesting facility!

 

Look'it all that nuclear waste it's spewed out over the rail tracks already, that's one layout won't need night time lighting, it'll have it's own green glow.

 

Isn't nuclear waste the secret sauce for Big Mac's? I will also be watching to see how this turns out. Will have to say that it will be unique. Shaun

 

I think the special sauce is 1000 Island dressing but almost as bad for you. Maybe that McDs had "1000 3-Mile Island" dressing. <smile>

Andy
Tetsu Uma

 

Now I know whats missing! Godzilla! Didn't they have a glow in the dark Godzilla out many years ago? Or at least the ridges along his back glowed in the dark.

 

What they really look like is probably represented in the grey complex in the upper right of this image:



That is, the secondary pressure domes were often housed in larger containment buildings, so any breach of the primary or secondary would still be contained. And cooling towers are not confined to nuclear power plants; many gas-fired plants use them. I pass by two of them frequently, one in Cincinnati and one in Birmingham, AL. Everyone believes they are nuclear plants when they are not; the multiple smokestacks kind of give them away.

I called my facility a "research reactor" rather than a power plant. What would a nuclear power plant require from rail service? I guess coal or gas for auxiliary power, although that's usually supplied by the grid itself.

The reactor vessel itself is small enough to be transported by rail, although it requires heavy load cars and a route without tight clearances.

 

This is a telephoto view from the opposite angle, showing a larger third reactor building, with its own auxiliary power plant. Instead of a cooling tower, it has a tank farm, at the far right. There's an interesting artifact in the lower left corner, for you Helicon fans. The building on the lower deck of the layout has acquired a noticeable twist--it took me six years to notice it!

 

Pete, nice Power Plant, great work.

The Con-Cor Nuclear plant is more like those early "research reactors" they had out at INL, and the Cooling Tower is way too small, but most folks will see those and think Nuclear power. I have seen Nuke plants with the cooling towers like the ones put out by Tomytec.

Also below are some pics of real nuclear power, and those Smilely face towers??? not sure if they are Nuclear or not, but my bet is photo shop.

 

There were actually a pair of Deluxe Innovations glow-in-the-dark toxic waste hopper car releases:

http://www.deluxeinnovations.com/current/releasenew21.html

http://www.nscalesupply.com/dei/dei-72202.html

http://www.nscalesupply.com/DEI/DEI-7240.html

Having accumulated everything except for an additional Con-Cor cooling tower, I plan on eventually merging various Con-Cor Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant kit components with the relatively rare (and pricey) 1/16 scale Revell Westinghouse Atomic Reactor kit that was originally released in 1959 (and re-released in an extremely short production run in 1961).

http://www.ipmsusa3.org/gallery/v/b...Atomic_Power_Plant_Revell_H_1550_695.jpg.html

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...2740969750.372896.169074414749&type=1&theater

http://sobchak.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/revell-atomic.jpg?w=950

Although the following Fine Scale Modeler page refers to a 1:25 Scale model, it could provide the inspiration for a similar, N-Scale power plant project.

http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/19/t/126340.aspx

N-Joy

 

Well while I was in the train room today I looked and I have two of the glow in the dark car sets, so Looks like I missed out on one set so I guess I need a set of the ones below.

any way did a little more building, I got one of those Tomytec Helium plants, so I started putting the building together, I did the cooling towers first, and put the in the power plant, I also added a old Bus part I save because I figured it would make a good building in N-scale.

 

I have been online looking for cooling tower dimensions just because I know the N-Scale model is way to small, but wow, 400-550 feet tall!!! that would be 36-37.5 inches in N-scale! and the base should also be about 400 feet across, so you would be looking at a foot print of say my Roundhouse I'm building, so yes you could fit a roundhouse inside a nuclear hyperboloid Cooling tower. The Con-Cor model cooling tower is 4.75" tall, so about 30" too short, I come up with a scale of 1/1263

On the other hand those Tomytec cooling towers, which are 1/150 scale, so bigger then N-scale a tad, are a lot closer in size to what would be used if you used Package type cooling towers to cool the water at your nuclear plant.

The reactor buildings themselves are often over 100 feet tall and about 50 feet in diameter, so the Con-Cor Model is closer on that part than the cooling tower.

 

wouldn't it be cool to have a nuclear loco? Like an old steam turbine loco with a US Navy miniaturized submarine reactor?

 

Honestly, no. You see, trains have this tendency to come off the rails or collide with other trains at a much greater frequency than submarines...

 

The Govermant did think about Nuclear aircraft at one time, so why not a Nuclear Locomotive. Here is a pic of the Nulcear Aircraft Engines