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LaSalle County Nuclear Generating Station, located southeast of Ottawa, Illinois serves Chicago and northern Illinois with electricity. The plant is owned and operated by the Exelon Corporation. Its Units 1 and 2 began commercial operation in August 1982 and April 1984, respectively. It has two General Electric boiling water reactors. LaSalle's Unit 1 and Unit 2 are capable of generating 1,210 net megawatts each; together generating a total of 2,420 net megawatts, which is enough electricity to support the electricity needs of more than two million average American homes. Instead of cooling towers, the station has a man-made cooling lake, which is also a popular fishery — LaSalle Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area — managed by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= LaSalle County Generating Station )〕 ==Surrounding population== The Nuclear Regulatory Commission defines two emergency planning zones around nuclear power plants: a plume exposure pathway zone with a radius of , concerned primarily with exposure to, and inhalation of, airborne radioactive contamination, and an ingestion pathway zone of about , concerned primarily with ingestion of food and liquid contaminated by radioactivity.〔http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/emerg-plan-prep-nuc-power-bg.html〕 The 2010 U.S. population within of LaSalle was 17,643, an increase of 7.1 percent in a decade, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data for msnbc.com. The 2010 U.S. population within was 1,902,775, an increase of 22.6 percent since 2000. Cities within 50 miles include Joliet (34 miles to city center).〔Bill Dedman, Nuclear neighbors: Population rises near US reactors, ''msnbc.com'', April 14, 2011 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42555888/ns/us_news-life/ Accessed May 1, 2011.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「LaSalle County Nuclear Generating Station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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