First light seeps through a small personnel door in the side of the cooling tower.
Having the opportunity to revisit this location was really awesome. The last time I was here, it was incredibly humid and the temps reached the high 80's. I felt much more refreshed during this last visit and was able to capture some of the angles and perspectives I didn't photograph on the first visit.
Looking up one of the cooling towers at the unfinished Hartsville Nuclear Power Plant in Tennessee.
When construction began on the Hartsville plant in the late 1970's, the Tennessee Valley Authority never imagined less than a decade later, they would be canceling construction of the plant.
In 1983, when the plant was canceled, the reality set in that the needs for nuclear power were not as great as many predicted years before.
Now the plant sits abandoned, a home for vultures and small birds nesting in the building's orifices.
Construction stopped on the Hartsville Nuclear Plant in Tennessee in 1983, part way into the building process. Once the Tennessee Valley Authority received reports depicting the actual need for nuclear power in the 80's, which was dramatically less than anticipated, the project was cancelled.
Fog at sunrise, Hartsville Nuclear Plant
Construction plans for the nuclear plant in Hartsville, Tennessee began in the 1970's, in preparation for the predicted need for nuclear power in the 1980's and beyond. When reports were presented depicting the actual demand for that type of power, the Tennessee Valley Authority realized the demand wasn't as high as predicted and cancelled the construction of the plant in 1983.
Vultures perch atop a partially constructed building at a nuclear power plant in Tennessee.
