Cincy Bruce wrote:
15 years ago I don't recall any nuclear plants along the Ohio River. Many coal plants.
Bruce (in Cincinnati)
I may have misremembered.
I was returning home from the east to the west by a wandering route, and was trying to follow the Ohio River (on the south side). I saw many coal plants and a saddening number of closed steel mills.
I thought this was in that same general area .
Charlie
Could very well be a turbine power plant (same engines from Boeing 727) hard to know without actually knowing the name or location. I did a quick Google search and in fact did see some Nuclear listings pop up.
Thanks guys- for all the input.
Through the years I've seen several nuclear generating plants up close- and they all had cooling towers like these towers.
I've also seen coal-burning generating plants and they did not have towers like these.
That's why I made the assumption.
If I am in error- my apologies.
Charlie
no reason there couldn't be both in close proximity. Those cooling towers look remarkably similar to those at Three Mile Island below Harrisburg, PA. More important, though, good shot, Sir.
There are about 100 nuclear plants in the US. Some have cooling towers and some do not. There are definitely some non-nuclear plants with cooling towers. The Crystal River nuclear plant near Tampa, Florida does not have cooling towers, but the neighboring coal plant does.
In any event, I'd guess your shot is of a coal plant as indicated by the thin stacks in the center.
I don't want to hijack Charlie's thread any worse than I have... But "sorry" always sets me off.
Perry and Davis-Besse, as you pointed out, are on Lake Erie in Northern Ohio. There are no nuclear plants in Southern Ohio. The picture you linked does not include the two thin smokestacks visible in either Charlie's original photo or the one you added to this thread.
Overall my point remains that cooling towers are not only used for nuclear plants, they have also been used with coal plants.
kylebarendrick wrote:
I don't want to hijack Charlie's thread any worse than I have... But "sorry" always sets me off.
Perry and Davis-Besse, as you pointed out, are on Lake Erie in Northern Ohio. There are no nuclear plants in Southern Ohio. The picture you linked does not include the two thin smokestacks visible in either Charlie's original photo or the one you added to this thread.
Overall my point remains that cooling towers are not only used for nuclear plants, they have also been used with coal plants.
I agree. According to any information I was able to find the last nuclear plant was demolished in 1968. The design for the cooling tower has been adopted by the coal plants long ago. Zimmer is along the river. The cooling tower can be seen from the road.
Cooling towers are used on many/ most power stations, nuclear or fossil fired, as well as at many industrial processes that generate a lot of heat e.g. refineries and petrochemical plants. It all depends on the availability of cooling water, direct cooling (without towers) is only used when a large and reliable flow of water is always available and their is no environmental concern about the slightly warmer (+5 to 10°C usually) water being returned to the source. Those are pretty standard cooling tower designs for large power stations and are certainly seen outside of the USA on a regular basis.
A quick google search showed a list of several nuclear power plants along the Ohio River. There is one near Paducah, KY, near the Ohio. It began operation in 1952 and, according to one note, closed May 31, 2013.