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• • PAGE 6 PLA1NDEALER-FRIDAY, MAY 11, 19S4 REPORTER SEES THE 'POWER* coming from pw i we wait to the station's control room. Byron's control room might be the most suitable tribute to the nuclear energy industry in general and to the-pkuit's designers in The control room had enough dials, gauges, switches ,15uttons and lights to break a seasoned Boeing 747 pilot into a cold sweat. These\nerve endings were the end product of 8.3 million feet of cable snaked throughout the plant. Illuminated by diffused lighting, the rectangular room resembled a cell moments before it splits into a second, identical cell. Each half of the room acts independent of the other c&itrolling its respective reactor. At each end of the room, control arrayed in an 180 degree curve, will surround one operator. This vista will be a cockpit display in­ forming the operators of every action and reaction occurring in the production and distribution of power in * the plant. Nearly the entire right wall was dedicated to tur­ bine conditions and the flow of electricity in and out of the station. Power flow throughout the Northern Illinois power grid will also be monitored here, I The remaining two walls were reserved for reactor operations. The seam system of * identifying trouble was used on all walls. Starting from the ceiling, conditions are reported in increasing) detail. An angled panel wedged under the ceiling and holding several trouble light compartments will alert an operator of trouble. Standing out froth the barrage are two large television screens and an LED display. One of the screens was blank. The other had a diagram of the steam circuit from beginning to end. The LED display, which would ordinarily show the positions of the radioactive rods in the reactor, remained dark. "Hie screen will stay dark until Byron receives per­ mission to load its fuel rods into the reactor. The rods themselves were submerged in a 40-foot deep, water-filled tank close to the reactor's containment building. My escort and I did not have the proper security clearance and were not allowed to inspect the tank. A high, corrugated metal wall stood between myself and the pools. The wall served as protection only from intruders. ( The Uranium 235 fuel, I was told, is relatively harmless until it is to a previously irrac element. In Byron's tors, this will be Califor­ nium. T • When the two are exposed to each other in the plant's dual hearts, they will it water into super hot, iper pressurized steam, steam will in turn heat other non-radiated water into turbine drftftng steam. As it turned out, our next stop was the containment building fdr reactor number hPo\ , which Powers said is i rcent complete. Gripping a hand railing I looked up. Two hundred feet above, hanging like a cold, gray cloud deck at nightfall, was the building's 140-foot circular ceiling. A kamikaze jet airliner could not break through its three-foot thick walls and , damage the core, Powers claimed. A web of metal netting in the corporate walls and an interior plating of 1-4-inch stainless steel further reinforced the walls. Below was a 60-foot metal- lined tank that will be the home of Byron's second operating reactor. Weighing in at 340 tons, the vessel is 44 feet tall and 22 feet in diameter! Water will surround it when ever fuel is present. Towering next to me was oqe of four 68-foot tall, 340 tori jateam generators. It .is in these generators that heat will be transferred from steanycreated in the reactor to steam flowing through the turbines. Once this steam has been heated and sent through the turbines it must be recon- densed before being used again. About 750,000 gallons of water per minute are pumped to the condensing unit for each reactor. That is where the cooling towers come into play. 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