Actually the reactors at Zion were shut down many years ago.

Nope, Zion is permanently mothballed.

http://www.exeloncorp.com/ourcompani...ng_station.htm

Physically it could be recommisioned, with todays energy woes who knows.
Never say never.

I was presuming that the dual nuke plants we see every time we fly to
our home town of Racine, WI, was Zion? The cooling towers are visible
east/northeast Rockford, IL.

If conditions are right, the columns of steam are visible from 70 miles
out.
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