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Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Bugey Nuclear Power Plant site, Ain, France

11th century chapel of Saint-Vulbas with cooling towers at Bugey

Bugey Units 2 and 3 under construction


Up the Rhône toward the plant site


Plant control room

Saturday, April 1, 2017

Westinghouse on the rocks

Westinghouse, owned by Toshiba, has filed for bankruptcy largely due to cost overruns and management challenges at construction of its AP1000 nuclear plants in Georgia and South Carolina. It's a rocky patch in its history of development in the nuclear power sector. This 1960s card shows a Westinghouse lab near Pittsburgh.