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In a similar sense, this is one of my favorite historical photos. A nuclear reactor delivered by steam locomotive!
When was this taken?
I'm out and about right now so I can't look it up, but most likely during the 50s. The United States transitioned away from steam in the 50s and was largely transitioned to diesel by the early-mid-60s
Edit: this xitter xeet says 1957 which seems very plausible (and applied a filter to the photo for whatever reason) Also while reverse image searching in hopes of finding more details I found this very post but federated to dbzer0.com
Oddly the nuclear reactor has more in common with a steam locomotive than a diesel since they both generate power via steam.
I almost added a joke about it being a photo of 2 steam power plants, but figured that might be a bit too obscure for !pics@lemmy.world