power generator room vs nuclear reactor fallout shelter

It was a small reactor called the S1C prototype, designed for the United States Navy to provide electricity generation and propulsion on warships. (A commenter below says that it was not a very well-kept secret.) I can’t imagine the secret was too closely guarded, but I can’t know. Right there – right off of Day Hill Road in the woods next to the landfill near Northwest Park, behind what is now a bunch of businesses and a new massive “mixed use” complex, near the Farmington River… for over 30 years… was a nuclear reactor and testing station.Īpparently, the true nature of the facility was secret.

I don’t remember when I first learned of this surprising fact, but I do recall being, well, being surprised. But there was another nuclear reactor here from 1959 to 1993 in… Windsor.

We used to have another – Connecticut Yankee in Haddam, now decommissioned – and there are, of course, nuclear submarines stationed in Groton.

Religion, Remembrances, Statuary, & Outdoor ArtĬonnecticut is currently home to one nuclear powerplant: Millstone in Waterford.

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Power generator room vs nuclear reactor fallout shelter