lasalle cooling lake

By eric garozzo111

  • first built

    The two nuclear generating units at the LaSalle facility were built in the 1970s and had a unique design style

  • boilers

    Each unit was built with General Electric boiling water reactors

  • operation

    Unit 1 was completed in 1982 and Unit 2 was ready for operation two years later.

  • operation

    lasalle is operated by exelon Corporation of Chicago

  • 1

    Exelon operates a total of 17 reactors in 10 nuclear facilities

  • operation

    first unit started operation

  • second opens

    the second unit starts operation

  • power

    lasalle creats almost 2.3 gigawatts

  • power

    the power generated powers about 2.3 million homes

  • cooling

    there were no cooling towers Instead water from a 2,000 acre man made lake is used as the cooling area for the power plant

  • scare

    in 2006 the lasalle power plant had a Site Area Emergency the first at a nuclear power plant since 1991.

  • 2010

    in 2010 net generation at the facility totaled more than 19 million megawatt/hr