Who could be sending out these gorgeous free calendars to all the area residents? Why, Duke Power, of course.
I’ve already mentioned my friendly local nuclear power plant owned and operated by Duke Power. Merely as a friendly reminder that my neighbors and I should have our evacuation routes memorized, Duke mails these calendars out every year.
On the cover is a nice panoramic view of McGuire Nuclear Power Station. I’ve got to say, I’m not too impressed with those cooling towers. They’re short and squat, like smooshed grain silos. They’re nothing like the technologically sublime nuclear plants of my childhood, spewing steam from towering hourglass concrete structures.
Like, say, Three Mile Island.
Now that was a nuclear reactor. Incidentally, this oblique aerial photograph of TMI comes from President Carter’s Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island—whose report of the “accident” (i.e. your run-of-the-mill everyday partial core meltdown) is housed at the National Archives and Records Administration and mirrored on Stellar-One. I bet Metropolitan Edison, the operator of TMI back then, didn’t send out free calendars.
