wo massive cooling towers sit like concrete giants in the middle of rural Alabama, standing out amid the hilly countryside. Each is built using 500 feet tall rebar-reinforced concrete.
Despite their size, you don't realize how big the towers are until you're inside. Thousands upon thousands of filters line the cooling tower floor to collect water molecules filtering upward.
A plant manager walked us from the cooling towers over to the containers where two Babcock & Wilcox-designed reactors are housed. We walked into what looked like giant grain silos, then passed through the kind of door you'd expect to see on a submarine.
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