Image Gallery: Traditional Power Technology

Hydro-power, fossil-fueled, and nuclear generating-plants manufacture most of the electricity used in the world today. Transmission still requires a wire connecting supplier and user.

Link to photo of Manicouagan dam.

Spillway at Manicouagan no. 3
Hydro-Québec Collection
National Museum of American History
copyright, Hydro-Québec

Link to photo of Grand Coulee power-plant.
Third Powerplant at Grand Coulee Dam, 1985
Image 262-004-002
US Department of Energy
ETV Collection
copyright, US Bureau of Reclimation

Link to photo of helicopter moving a transmission tower.

Helicopter assist for Snettisham Project, Alaska, 1978
Image 261-015-001
US Department of Energy
ETV Collection
copyright, Department of Energy

Link to photo of coal-plant cooling tower.
Natural Draft cooling tower
Big Sandy Coal-Plant
Kentucky, 1963
Image 64,138
Electricity & Modern Physics Collection
National Museum of American History
copyright, Smithsonian Institution

Link to photo of coal plant.
Carneys Point Coal Plant
Carneys Point, NJ, 1996
Image 0002
US Generating Collection
National Museum of American History
copyright, US Generating Company

Link to photo of steamlines.
Steamlines at Pittsfield Co-generation Plant
Pittsfield, MA, 1996
Image 0032
US Generating Collection
National Museum of American History
copyright, US Generating Company

Link to photo of radioactive waste being buried.
Disposal of Solid Radioactive Waste
Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, 1974
Image 285-004-001
US Department of Energy ETV Collection
copyright, Department of Energy

Link to photo of TMI transporter.
Transport of Nuclear Material
from Three Mile Island, 1986
Image 287-007-002
US Department of Energy
ETV Collection
copyright, Department of Energy

Link to photo of nuclear plant demolition.
Demolition of Shippingport Atomic Power Station
the first commercial nuclear plant, c.1986
Image 113-050-001
US Department of Energy ETV Collection
copyright, Department of Energy

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