Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Diagram of the Operation of a Nuclear Reactor in a Standard Nuclear Power Plant

Diagram of the Operation of a Nuclear Reactor in a Standard Nuclear Power Plant

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Original – Nuclear reactor: pressurized water type Water is heated through the splitting of uranium atoms in the reactor core. The water, held under high pressure to keep it from boiling, produces steam by transferring heat to a secondary source of water. The steam is used to generate electricity. Cooling water from the river condenses the steam back into water. The river water is either discharged directly back to the river or cooled in the towers and reused in the plant.

Reason: Found this movie on a drive by of the article Nuclear power, and thought it was interesting and educational enough to warrant an FPC shot.
Articles in which this image appears: nuclear power, pressurized water reactor
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Diagrams
Creator: Tennessee Valley Authority (PD-USGov)

Support as nominator – TomStar81 (Talk) 00:16, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support A good educational video. Slightly weird at the end with the pipes coming from who-knows-where to the condenser, but I can live with that. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 12:40, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- @Adam Cuerden: You're right, however if you look at the first 3 seconds or so of the video you can see that the "Houdini pipes" actually are present and lead to the cooling tower on the right of the video. Water would be circulated there to be cooled before returning to the plant, but you are correct in that they could have done a bit better job of showing/explaining that part. TomStar81 (Talk) 15:44, 25 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Jobas (talk) 11:58, 26 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Ogg Theora is not featured quality. - hahnchen 22:14, 26 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- @Hahnchen: How do I that? Please explain in great detail and in simple English so that I can at least make an attempt to figure it out. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:57, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  - Vote struck: This is not the place to advocate policy change. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 14:58, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    - This is nothing to do with policy change. A VP9/Opus transcode of the source file would be unambiguously better. I find it hard to believe that the source file was Theora. - hahnch e n 16:05, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support per Adam - Spongie555 (talk) 08:56, 30 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support high EV, quality acceptable. SST flyer 05:30, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:PWR nuclear power plant animation.ogv --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:51, 1 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]