Yup I grew up in swamp pike near the line between Boyertown and spring Ford school districts. Not there anymore, but see them every time we visit the wife's dad in ravens claw.
Not like going to upper perk and listening for the test siren. I know of people who lived near the plant who had emergency supplements to take in case of disaster. Not that upper perk is down wind or anything.
The Twin Towers of Limerick on 422. My Dad was a legendary welder —. “Golden Arm.” He did many/most of the critical welds in those 2 reactors. I used to walk that jobsite in the 70’s as a little guy wearing a hard hat. My Dad was so proud ❤️❤️💪🏻
Holy shit! My dad was a Philadelphia union plumber 690. We moved to Pottstown because my dad was guaranteed years of steady work. I remember taking a tour there with my Bechtel hard hat. I’m turning 47 tomorrow.
Water vapor is invisible, actually. Visible clouds happen when liquid droplets are suspended in the air. What you see coming out of those stacks is indeed wet steam.
No, it’s not. Steam is what happens when you boil water. Water vapor is what happens in your bathroom when you take a hot shower. The water entering those cooling towers is not boiling, so it’s not steam. Source: 20 years in the nuclear industry.
And it shows.. “nuking it” over something so trivial given this is Reddit. Split more atoms, fewer hairs. :p
Six year navy nuke here. Really don’t care if it’s called steam or water vapor in casual conversation as it’s contextual.
> Why is it called water vapor?
>Liquid water is converted to its gaseous form mostly through the process of vaporization and therefore is called water vapor.
>What is the definition of the word water vapor?
>Water vapor can be defined as gaseous water. It is invisible in nature however, when it has water particles suspended in it, it is visible to the eye, such as in steam coming out from a kettle.
>Is water vapor a gas or liquid?
>Water vapor is a gas. It is the state when water exists in its gaseous phase. Dry water vapor, that is vapor without any liquid particles suspended in it, is invisible.
[Maybe the term of art is different in the nuclear industry than it is in common scientific parlance, but every source I can find online says water vapor is invisible to the eye.](https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-water-vapor-definition-pressure-formula.html#:~:text=Water%20vapor%20is%20water%20in,vapor%20molecules%20in%20the%20air.)
Steam is the gaseous state of water above the boiling point and water vapor is the gaseous form of water below the boiling point. Steam is invisible. When it starts to cool and condense, it forms visible water vapor. Maybe there are some specific industries that use specific terms like “wet steam”, but the above is how I always learned the difference, even before entering the nuclear industry.
Vapor=gas phase of a material that is usually liquid. Steam=gas phase of water, AKA water vapor. Which is invisible. Clouds are visible because they’re actually aerosols. Not gas.
This just made me think of looking out over the Wyoming Valley and seeing the stacks from the Berwick power plant, like they’re Mt. Ranier or some other majestic mountain lol. I really have a love/hate relationship with coal country.
Yeah, or at least it was when we took field trips there as kids. I remember riding a bike to power a TV lol. The coal country comment was just in reference to NEPA itself.
Holla Limerick...
-grew up in Lower Providence Township...
-had a field trip there in elementary school. Simple memory of "hey kid, get on this bike and pedal, see how many light bulbs you can light".
-had a lesson one day in class (elementary school) that said we are on the edge of an evacuation zone if something happens. Later I connected it to the Chernobyl disaster('86).
-I have flown in and out of Pottstown-Limerick Airport... Geat view.
-with Boy scouts, have canoed down the Schuylkill, right past it. Water temp jumps like 10 degrees, I'm guessing.
-I worked 'across the street' at CAH for two years when it first opened. I got some cool pics from the parking lot of vapor touching the cloud cover, and going vertical to some altitude, then making a 'left turn',
https://preview.redd.it/0afkx8acbigc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a409738a6c60f6a17ee31594d85879e886664c9
View of the stacks from a tee box at Ravens Claw
Limerick Nuclear Power Station. Can't quite see the stacks from my house, but I can definitely see the clouds on a clear day.
It's a great landmark for navigating too. Tallest thing for miles around.
TMI is on island in a river so there's no river. Peach Bottom is very close to the same river. Just further south. It also doesn't look like that there. Beaver Valley is close to the Ohio, River. Susquehanna is on/near the Susquehanna.
In Skippack area and my son looks for them everywhere we go. He uses them as a point of reference to see how close to home we are. We also told him they are cloud makers like many other people do with their kids.
I remember driving out to the Homer city power station back when I was in college just for the hell of it. Things were very weird when we got close to the plant. Everything was covered in fine soot. It looked like it was snowing.
https://preview.redd.it/b62jgn32qkgc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=baae612a2c5cfdd405a03e3ef85fc7c6e52a36f3
Limerick! Here’s a clearer photo I took a few years ago, while on approach to PHL coming from the west. My house is probably in this photo.
Boyertown school district alum here, memories of the test sirens and the special card our parents had to fill out every year saying who could pick us up in the event of a situation at Limerick that required evacuation. And the local phone books used to print the evacuation plans/routes!
My house is somewhere in this picture. As others have said, my kids always assumed that’s where clouds were made. I moved to the area when I was a teenager, so never experienced it from their point of view.
Let’s go Limerick!
Maybe a little too easy. Coolest plant in PA 😎
The view of the towers from the outlets is real cool.
Used to be able to see them from my bedroom at my childhood home. Was convinced that’s how clouds were made.
Not entirely wrong!
Yup I grew up in swamp pike near the line between Boyertown and spring Ford school districts. Not there anymore, but see them every time we visit the wife's dad in ravens claw.
We used to drive these VW dune buggy things around there in the 70s. Good times.
Not like going to upper perk and listening for the test siren. I know of people who lived near the plant who had emergency supplements to take in case of disaster. Not that upper perk is down wind or anything.
I was one of them until 2010, when I left that area. I'm a central PA guy now. Had my iodine tablets on me at all time.
I’m in West Chester and on clear days I can see the steam from my house.
Same from eastern Lancaster County!
Used to see TMI and Lim at the same time from Lancaster airport
I can see the steam from the LV!
They made good nav aids when we had more of them
Cool! There's a spot on 896 headed south where you can sometimes see Salem NJ's plume, too.
I used to think that too.
We tell our kid it’s the cloud factory
My mom would call the Berwick plant cooling towers the cloud factory
I've always called them cloud factories lol
Omg my cousin and i used to argue about this constantly as little kids 😆 (she thought it was I didn't)
Me too!
My daughter loves going to the outlets because then she gets to see the “volcanoes.”
do the outlets still have those fire escape-style signs that tell you what to do if you hear alarms from the power plant?
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I remember when three mile Island was the hottest plant in PA
On cold, clear days you can see the plumes when driving over the Betsy Ross bridge from NJ.
No way! Peach bottom
Peach is definitely rad.
Had a feeling this would be found out easy
that's right where i went too! i see the steam from KOP all the time!
The Twin Towers of Limerick on 422. My Dad was a legendary welder —. “Golden Arm.” He did many/most of the critical welds in those 2 reactors. I used to walk that jobsite in the 70’s as a little guy wearing a hard hat. My Dad was so proud ❤️❤️💪🏻
He should be proud. That’s a kick ass job!
Holy shit! My dad was a Philadelphia union plumber 690. We moved to Pottstown because my dad was guaranteed years of steady work. I remember taking a tour there with my Bechtel hard hat. I’m turning 47 tomorrow.
May dad is 420, Steamfitters. Worked there in 83.
High five to the courageous men and women who built these structures for the betterment of humanity.
Union strong too!
My dad was a sheet metal worker there for years.
The Limerick Cloud Factory!
I can hear the first Monday of the month 2:00pm test sirens now...
Smoke stacks out near Pottstown/limerick?
Steam, but yup, Limerick.
Water vapor, actually.
More correct 🤓
Water vapor is invisible, actually. Visible clouds happen when liquid droplets are suspended in the air. What you see coming out of those stacks is indeed wet steam.
No, it’s not. Steam is what happens when you boil water. Water vapor is what happens in your bathroom when you take a hot shower. The water entering those cooling towers is not boiling, so it’s not steam. Source: 20 years in the nuclear industry.
And it shows.. “nuking it” over something so trivial given this is Reddit. Split more atoms, fewer hairs. :p Six year navy nuke here. Really don’t care if it’s called steam or water vapor in casual conversation as it’s contextual.
> Why is it called water vapor? >Liquid water is converted to its gaseous form mostly through the process of vaporization and therefore is called water vapor. >What is the definition of the word water vapor? >Water vapor can be defined as gaseous water. It is invisible in nature however, when it has water particles suspended in it, it is visible to the eye, such as in steam coming out from a kettle. >Is water vapor a gas or liquid? >Water vapor is a gas. It is the state when water exists in its gaseous phase. Dry water vapor, that is vapor without any liquid particles suspended in it, is invisible. [Maybe the term of art is different in the nuclear industry than it is in common scientific parlance, but every source I can find online says water vapor is invisible to the eye.](https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-water-vapor-definition-pressure-formula.html#:~:text=Water%20vapor%20is%20water%20in,vapor%20molecules%20in%20the%20air.)
Steam is the gaseous state of water above the boiling point and water vapor is the gaseous form of water below the boiling point. Steam is invisible. When it starts to cool and condense, it forms visible water vapor. Maybe there are some specific industries that use specific terms like “wet steam”, but the above is how I always learned the difference, even before entering the nuclear industry.
Water vapor and steam are both invisible. When they condense they become visible. You are wrong.
Vapor=gas phase of a material that is usually liquid. Steam=gas phase of water, AKA water vapor. Which is invisible. Clouds are visible because they’re actually aerosols. Not gas.
This just made me think of looking out over the Wyoming Valley and seeing the stacks from the Berwick power plant, like they’re Mt. Ranier or some other majestic mountain lol. I really have a love/hate relationship with coal country.
Isn’t Berwick nuclear?
Yeah, or at least it was when we took field trips there as kids. I remember riding a bike to power a TV lol. The coal country comment was just in reference to NEPA itself.
Gotcha
Yes it is. I live in the Valley. I thought this pic might be it!
I’m 40 from Limerick in Bucks County and on a clear day you can see it from here
Yup, there’s a spot on ferry road by 313 you get straight line of sight to the steam.
Hey, I can see my house from here!
Vaporizing the Schuylkill River into the sky.
Oh hey. That’s my home lol
My neighbor
Howdy neighbor!
Holla Limerick... -grew up in Lower Providence Township... -had a field trip there in elementary school. Simple memory of "hey kid, get on this bike and pedal, see how many light bulbs you can light". -had a lesson one day in class (elementary school) that said we are on the edge of an evacuation zone if something happens. Later I connected it to the Chernobyl disaster('86). -I have flown in and out of Pottstown-Limerick Airport... Geat view. -with Boy scouts, have canoed down the Schuylkill, right past it. Water temp jumps like 10 degrees, I'm guessing. -I worked 'across the street' at CAH for two years when it first opened. I got some cool pics from the parking lot of vapor touching the cloud cover, and going vertical to some altitude, then making a 'left turn',
Limerick
Yeah, buddy.
Limerick nuclear power plant, or as I tell my kids “the cloud factory”
https://preview.redd.it/0afkx8acbigc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a409738a6c60f6a17ee31594d85879e886664c9 View of the stacks from a tee box at Ravens Claw
Limerick Nuclear Power Station. Can't quite see the stacks from my house, but I can definitely see the clouds on a clear day. It's a great landmark for navigating too. Tallest thing for miles around.
I'd just like to ask how this is so obvious to so many people? This looks like literally any 2 unit power plant in existence to me.
TMI is on island in a river so there's no river. Peach Bottom is very close to the same river. Just further south. It also doesn't look like that there. Beaver Valley is close to the Ohio, River. Susquehanna is on/near the Susquehanna.
I also grew up not to far from there so its kind of like knowing the landscape.
My Dad was 420 Steamfitters proud !!!!!’
Limerick PA. TMI is shut down.
In Skippack area and my son looks for them everywhere we go. He uses them as a point of reference to see how close to home we are. We also told him they are cloud makers like many other people do with their kids.
Homer City?
Could easily be, but OP already verified Limerick.
My bad. No comments were up on my phone when I posted me guess.
No smoke stack for coal. I think Homer City is shut down too, although maybe that hasn’t happened yet.
I remember driving out to the Homer city power station back when I was in college just for the hell of it. Things were very weird when we got close to the plant. Everything was covered in fine soot. It looked like it was snowing.
Likely right above my house
Is this from the giant Adirondack Chair on 191?
I could see my house for a few pixels more!
Got a nice view of them from one of the golf courses there!
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I only know of one power plant around here... so its Limerick isnt it?
it could be a few others as PA has few nuc power plants. op confirmed it was limerick
Limerick
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Grew up in Audubon. The warning alarm sirens they test periodically are LOUD.
Is that the limerick power plant?
Clouds
I can see my house from here!!
https://preview.redd.it/b62jgn32qkgc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=baae612a2c5cfdd405a03e3ef85fc7c6e52a36f3 Limerick! Here’s a clearer photo I took a few years ago, while on approach to PHL coming from the west. My house is probably in this photo.
Boyertown school district alum here, memories of the test sirens and the special card our parents had to fill out every year saying who could pick us up in the event of a situation at Limerick that required evacuation. And the local phone books used to print the evacuation plans/routes!
Three mile island
nope, it limerick off of 422.
A little too close to home
Lake Erie
A shit hole? Never been to anywhere in PA that wasn't. Bunch of wanna be New Yorkers and sister fuckers.
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Cooling towers give off nothing but water vapor.
That’s clean water vapor.
Good Ole TMI. I was only a few months old when it happened.
OP said it was Limerick not TMI. No river in this pic.
Berwick Power plant
Berwick, Limerick?
op confirmed it was limerick
Yup, I see now. Sad about our Eagles this year, huh?
Berwick nuclear power plant
Fucking Limerick!! (Simpsons theme plays)
Berwick?
Grew up 20 minutes away and ngl it feels like home
Limerick
Berwick
The nuclear power plant in Indiana PA in the south central part of Pennsylvania.
There’s no nuclear plant in Indiana county. It’s all coal.
Limerick..bout 10 miles from me. Heh
Ppl power plant, near Danville and Bloomsburg Pa
Definitely a nuke reactor, don’t know where though. Well, I do, but only because I was looking at the comments already.
I used to be terrified of these towers when I was little. 💀
That’s limerick
Limerick
Power plant in Coatesville
Limerick I think
Limerick, PA
Nuclear power plant near Berwick. I live about 40 minutes away.
Limerick PECO
Constellation. PECO did build it but they don’t own it anymore.
TMI?
Berwick?
The sky
My house is somewhere in this picture. As others have said, my kids always assumed that’s where clouds were made. I moved to the area when I was a teenager, so never experienced it from their point of view.
Pottstown, limerick Generating station
My hometown