What in the hell is all this, why would anyone construct it, and how could they have possibly kept it hidden from the world? I don't have the answers to any of these questions or the dozens of others that keep popping into my head, but somehow, I mean to find out. The ecosystem on the Island wasn't just curated, it was completely artificial from the ground up! There, floating outside the window and surrounded by machinery, was the very island that I had been living on, and it too was orbiting high above the Earth along with countless other stations just like it. When I came to, I searched the whole station, but the only signs of Mei-Yin and Nerva were a few ounces of dried blood. NewsBreak provides latest and breaking Helena, AR local news, weather forecast, crime and safety reports, traffic updates, event notices, sports, entertainment, local life and other items of interest in the community and nearby towns.
That earned me one hell of a knockout punch.
Forgetting my present company, I suggested a peaceful approach if we encountered him. All of Nerva's men lay dead amongst the shards of a mysterious metal, but Nerva's body was missing. In fact, it was her who freed me, and insisted we follow Nerva through the portal in the cave.Ī horrifying scene awaited us.
Entergy has annual revenues of more than $12 billion and approximately 13,000 employees.Well, I'm not dead, and as it turns out, neither was Mei-Yin. Entergy delivers electricity to 2.8 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Entergy owns and operates power plants with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, including nearly 10,000 megawatts of nuclear power, making it one of the nation's leading nuclear generators. Entergy Arkansas is a subsidiary of Entergy Corporation, an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power production and retail distribution operations. Entergy Arkansas' biggest power source, however, is nuclear, accounting for 71 percent of the company's generation in 2014 and making Entergy Arkansas one of the cleanest electric utilities in the country.Įntergy Arkansas provides electricity to approximately 700,000 customers in 63 counties. In addition, the company announced in April plans to enter into an agreement to buy all the output from an 81-megawatt solar farm to be built near Stuttgart. Within the last eight years, Entergy Arkansas has acquired two modern, highly efficient natural-gas-burning power plants - one near Malvern and one near Monroe, Louisiana - and is in the process of acquiring a third near El Dorado. Unit 3, 18-megawatt gas turbine, built in 1969, placed in inactive reserve in 2012.This is the unit that was imploded last October. Unit 2, 544-megawatt gas/oil-fired unit, built in 1965, placed in inactive reserve in 2000.This is the unit that was imploded today. Unit 1, 356-megawatt gas/oil-fired unit, built in 1961, placed in inactive reserve in 2008.Plans are to remove all of the site's above-ground structures, with the exception of the transmission switchyard. To properly dismantle the facilities, Entergy has contracted with PRC Environmental, Inc. This is just one of the many steps in modernizing our part of the electrical grid and, at the same time, making this space available for something productive."īuilt during the 1960's, The Ritchie Plant housed three units that could produce 918 megawatts of electricity. "We must continue to anticipate and plan for the electrical needs of our customers well into the future.
"Going back more than 100 years, Arkansas has been on the frontier of modern electricity," said Hugh McDonald, president and CEO of Entergy Arkansas, Inc. Over the next several months, workers will clear the debris and return the site to a state in which it can be used for something else. Like our page to stay informed about passing of a loved one in Paragould, Arkansas on facebook. Find an obituary, get service details, leave condolence messages or send flowers or gifts in memory of a loved one. The plant was retired from service in 2013 as part of a process to modernize the company's generating portfolio to match ongoing and projected supply needs. Search Paragould obituaries and condolences, hosted by. The second and larger boiler, along with a 450-foot emissions stack, were toppled in dramatic fashion today. KATV ABC 7 in Little Rock, Arkansas covers news, sports, weather and the local community in the city and the surrounding area, including Hot Springs, Conway, Pine. 24, which brought down one of two remaining boilers. Work crews began in June 2014 preparing the site for an implosion last Oct. Today's implosion began the final stage of the plant's demolition.