"Morgans" wrote in message
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"Marty" wrote

Zion station is directly south of Racine and has no cooling towers. It
used
Lake Michigan for cooling.

Davis Bessie, near Port Clinton, Ohio has cooling towers, and it is tight
on
the lake. My understanding is that the water is cooled via cooling towers
before being returned to the lake. I believe it is still running, and it
has to be at least 30 years old now.
--
Jim in NC


If restarted, I'm sure Zion would also have to have a cooling tower. To
control thermal pollution all plants, including fossil fueled, now need
either a cooling tower or lake (man made). Again, it was Dresden that was
the labrat for cooling lake construction. The water is cooled to acceptable
temps before it is returned to the natural source. This also lowers the
dependency and impact on the natural source.
The added cooling isn't for Nukes only. Near Dresden is the Collins plant
that is oil fired, my house used to sit on land now under the Collins
Station cooling lake. ;-)

I don't know about Bessie, but many operated for years on the natural
sources alone.

Often the plants have been called upon to help control freezing of navigable
waterways such as the Illinois and Mississippi rivers.

I used to take company photographers up to take the annual aerial photos of
the plants. I wonder what kind of flight planning it takes to do that
nowadays. 8-)

Marty