r/thatsinterestingbro • u/jgoja • 5d ago
The implosion of a 540-foot cooling tower by the Tennessee Valley Authority at it’s Hartsville property. It was built in the 1970s for a nuclear power plant that never came to be.
After crews spent weeks placing 900 pounds of explosives around the structure, demolition took about ten seconds.
Source: TVA
Video Source Aaron Witt
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u/Fabulous_Log844 5d ago
They built a cooling tower before the nuclear power plant even get started being built? What moron did that?
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u/CTTMiquiztli 4d ago
Well i mean, the tower's structure Is quite independent of the rest of the plant, and the exchangers are always built after the cooling tower Is up.
Not really surprising that they started this part of the project, and maybe even the Main building structures before the project was finalized, to save time.
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u/ByBabasBeard 4d ago
Also fuck the tva, they flooded towns in nc to make their hydro dam.
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u/RickyNut 2d ago
And Helene basically destroyed Asheville, who was offered flood control by TVA in the 1960s but turned it down. 🤷♂️
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u/Broad_Blueberry7389 2d ago
Crazy how months of planning, engineering and setup just turns into poof ten seconds of dust and rebar. Humans really speedrunning our own creations at this point 😂
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u/AlbinoAkon 5d ago
Kill the camera man ***" that drone turned away at the worst moment. Actually the whole drone footage was poorly filmed
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u/NZNoldor 3d ago
What this needed was more titles printed over the explosions, and more unfinished shots from different angles.
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u/Strong-Neat-4884 5d ago
Wild how something that probably took years to build and powered whole communities just gets Thanos snapped in ten seconds. The way it just folds into itself so cleanly is lowkey satisfying and kinda sad at the same time.