Comment by eichin
3 days ago
Err, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlewood_Lake was completed in 1928 (for electrical demand regulation.) Much older than nuclear...
3 days ago
Err, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlewood_Lake was completed in 1928 (for electrical demand regulation.) Much older than nuclear...
My bad. It's still notable that the sixth largest one in the world was still developed for nuclear plants.
Which is kind of funny as they where storing energy from a hydroelectric power plant, so building a larger dam would have been way more energy efficient.
Connecticut isn’t very elevated so a dam at a higher level may not have been very practical.