Ethanol Mandate for Iowa?

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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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.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"


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

Byron station is just southwest of Rockford, it has 2 cooling towers just
under 500' tall, maybe thats the one you see?

I have used it many times as a fix when going to Rockford and calling
approach.

Marty

Byron station is just southwest of Rockford, it has 2 cooling towers just
under 500' tall, maybe thats the one you see?

Yep, that's the one, thanks.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"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

"Morgans" wrote

and it is tight on the lake.

Crap. I hate when I can't type. Should read "right on the lake."
--
Jim in NC

("Morgans" wrote)
and it is tight on the lake.

Crap. I hate when I can't type. Should read "right on the lake."


First one reads better - there's a whiff of style to it. g


Montblack

"Montblack" wrote

First one reads better - there's a whiff of style to it. g

I was glad that it was "tight on the lake," 'cause it was a very
unmistakable landmark, when navigating the lake using ded reckoning and
pilotage. g

I never once mistook it for an antenna. ;-))
--
Jim in NC

"Morgans" wrote in message
...

"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