Fuel rods and Dungeness

Fuel rods and Dungeness, originally uploaded by Rusty Marvin (experimenting).

LR-7485_PS_shopped - Bit of a play on terms but severing a similar purpose. Dungeness Power Station is a pair of nuclear reactors, always seemed to me to be a barren waste lands associated with these things. First time I have been this close to one, a building or two that inspires very little in the artistic appeal area, for me any ways.
May be it was living quite a bit of my life with the media pumping the Cold War down my throat and the three minute warning and films like when the wind blows etc.
So this is my humour at all those thoughts and miss sold concepts from many years ago.

The stations are built on the largest area of open shingle in Europe, measuring 12 km by 6 km, which has been deposited by the sea and built up over thousands of years. The entire area is moving slowly north and east as the sea moves the shingle from one side of the ness to the other. It is surrounded by a nature reserve Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). A fleet of lorries is used to continuously maintain shingle sea defences for the plant as coastal erosion would otherwise move shingle away at an estimated rate of 6 m per year. Around 30,000 cubic metres of shingle are moved each year. It seems that deposition on the north shore of the ness does not keep pace with demand. In all 90,000 cubic metres are moved each year along parts of the coast between Pett Level and Hythe. This is necessary for the safety of the entire area including the power stations. Approximately 100 million litres of cooling water are extracted and returned to the sea each hour, after being heated 12° Celsius (22 °F). Citation

I have been shooting in RAW recently and you will notice LR prefixing the image numbers, this one is probably my first bit of post processing to enhance an image. Normally in Lightroom I crop and use a predefined settings to deliver what I thought was in the viewer at the time of the shot, mainly because I haven't read the manual to put some settings in the camera. Hence the removal of the SOOC statements