I was here before...

Surprise: two units running...
I thought no one would be.
So: we took the opportunity to give unit EC 3 a so-called "hot-thermoshock".
This is to kill the Japanese oisters, which might have deposited in the coolingwatersystem. (that's likely, we know...)
Prior to stop the unit we raise the coolingwatertemperature from 16°C (60F) to about 45°C (113F). this is done by letting the coolingwater circulate instead of refreshing it. So we close the valve at the end of the coolingwateroutlet of the unit and open the valves of the circulation duct. (these valves have a diameter of 2 meters....) When we reach 45° we stop the unit because the vacuum in the condenser becomes worse and that's bad for the low pressure turbine. After stopping we maintain 45° by letting steam into the condenser, thus creating input of heat, otherwise done by the outlet steam of the low pressure turbine.
After half an hour, all the Japanese oisters are dead and filtered out by the debris filters. (we don't have the chance to eat them because they directly go into the sea....

So, because highly qualified operators watch the systems, I took the opportunity to shoot this night picture of the sites of NUON and RWE/Essent.
In front: the lights of our parking lot.

BETTER in LARGE....

Just like this one from some weeks ago.