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So clean. So orderly. This is pure satisfaction.
The photo is from the Hanford B Reactor in Washington state, USA.
Source: https://www.spokesman.com/picture-stories/2014/aug/10/hanford-tour/
Wire routing ~~porn~~ artful erotica.
This makes me think of neural pathways in a brain. Or blood vessels.
Ours wouldn't look like this even if we try.
Good luck having to swap out just one of those cables. lmao
Chances that the wiring would be faulty here are much smaller than the other components.
Plus you'd just put another cable and leave the faulty one in the bundle. And if more than a few wires are faulty, you just replace all of them to be sure.
With a yellow label RayoVac and a silver black cat Eveready?!
Ohh ho baby!
NERD
Nice
Mmmmmm
Mmm I'm a sucker for well lashed/dressed cables.
It's organic looking
Like a tree that grew there. A binary tree.
I love me some good lace myself...
Whether it's cable lacing or lace garments is mostly irrelevant.
Thought that was a can of tomatoes on the lower right there for a second.
Funny, I thought it was a can of Pepsi, if it's the same thing we're looking at.
Hmm. I feel like one could make much more literal wire routing porn, if one wanted.
it’s clean and orderly now but when a wire breaks in the middle of that loom and needs a bodge repair that thing ends up looking fucked
Shhhh just let me enjoy it
I don't know how nuke plants are run, but maybe they'd just replace it entirely.
Not saying you don't know this already, but just throwing in additional context/info:
Hanford... isn't/wasn't... the kind of nuclear power plant that is primarily geared toward the generation of energy. It actually required a significant amount of energy, they had to build a new substation for it, drawing off of the Bonneville and Grand Coulee Dams.
It was built as part of the Manhattan project.
To refine or transform Uranium 238 into Plutonium 239.
Hanford produced the plutonium used in the Trinity test bomb, and in the Fat Man bomb that destroyed Nagasaki.
It kept producing weapons grade nuclear material through till about the mid 60s, then mostly ceased that kind of operation and functioned as varying kinds of test nuclear reactors and also was used for other scientific studies.
More recently, one of the LIGO, gravity wave detectors, was built and operated there.
... But, it also serves as a nuclear waste storage site... and has had a whole lot of problems of leaking said nuclear waste into the ground water table over the last several decades, a good amount of which was making its way into the Columbia river, at one point.
As of 2023, apparently 10k people are/were employed in cleanup efforts... it is a Superfund site, a special program Congress came up with a while back to address egregious toxic waste sites across the country.
... And the entire site was built on land sacred to multiple Native America tribes, many of whom were relocated... It is located basically on / near where the Snake, Yakima and Columbia rivers meet, and has... had been continuously inhabited by native peoples for thousands of years, and functioned as a place of meeting between the Nez Perce, Umatilla and Yakama peoples.
So... yeah. Took a sacred historical site and quite literally turned it into a nuclear waste dump.
I don't know much about nuclear plants either but I do know a bit about wires and I think you are correct. It's very unlikely that one of these cables just snaps, look how they twisted the wires in that 'arm' so it can move and bend forming a nice elbow. So if it's corrosion, temperature, mechanical shock... it could affect other cables as well making advisable to replace the whole bunch altogether.
That said I've seen a very similar looking wiring, though very different machine, an electronic organ from the 60s. Among other issues there were some dead keys on one of the keyboards and the problem was the wires. I just ran a new bunch with an exactly looking cable, laced it the same way as the other bunches, and put it kind of hidden between them. It didn't stand out at all, most people would not notice at all.
That's pretty much how I'd expect it to go yeah, every electrician I've worked with has been super particular about wiring. Even having done my own in-field bodges on wire looms for equipment (just splicing a wire because I didn't have an available spare or time to redo the harness) it doesn't stick out, especially after all the cable wrap or zip ties.
That sounds fun. Looking at the picture again I feel like over time eventually the stress of opening and closing the panel would weaken something at least. Although tbf maybe it’s rarely opened
I somehow initially interpreted this as meaning:
'Here is a depiction of a primitive computer wiring bundle at Hanford, which was used to rout porn.'
Had to blink a few times.
They were way ahead of their time. /s
Holy shit, I'd never expected a Hot Shots GIF in here.
There was a Schlock Mercenary one the other day, it's getting wild in here