FIRST NUCLEAR PLANT

Genoa, Vernon County. 1974. Altitude c. 1,000 ft. The entire Dairyland electrical-generating operation is seen in an oblique view to the SSE from a position over the Mississippi River. The plant generates steam both by burning coal and by nuclear fission. The silo-like structure at lower left houses the nuclear reactor. It is the state's oldest and smallest of the state's three nuclear plants.