Im just curious, do any of you know of anyone producing an o scale nuclear power plant kit or assembled model? It would be cool to have a couple of cooling towers and reactor buildings.
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in a typical US reactor the core is underground; the large above ground structures are the containment dome, the turbines and the cooling towers.
The schematic above is a depiction of a pressurized water reactor (PWR). Somewhat more than half of the operating reactors are this technology. For info, the Fukushima Daiichi units were BWR technology. Steam generators (2) are not used and the containment(1) is substantially different in BWR's.
To the original question, I know of no scale kit. Lionel made a nuclear reactor operating accessory.
Got a Pennsy layout? Just call Babcock & Wilcox and I'm sure they'll be happy to build one for you, just like Three Mile Island!
And NOT all nuclear power stations have/use cooling towers. One of the stations I worked at used no cooling towers. It is two units each producing 1250 MWs. One of the other stations in the system is the same output but used three cooling towers per unit. But these cooling towers looked like sports stadiums.
Ron
Lionel made one, but it is toy like and not proto. Lionel Nuke Plant 6-24294_2509.
Rapid Transit Holmes posted:Got a Pennsy layout? Just call Babcock & Wilcox and I'm sure they'll be happy to build one for you, just like Three Mile Island!
The China Syndrome on your layout. What a blast.....literally....LOL We can all laugh now, but in 1979 we weren't laughing. Odd thing is, The China Syndrome was released just about the same time. I remember being so wrapped up in building my house and my career, that the two seemed to be one. Couldn't get the fact from fiction, if it can be called fiction, separated in my mind.
Dick Thornburgh was a pretty good governor, but I think he was on the verge of a breakdown, watching him on TV.
