RG&E Nuclear

Until I stumbled across it while bumbling along back roads, through apple orchards, I didn't know that Rochester has a nuclear power plant (aerial photo). Everyone knows about the power stations at Oswego (whose huge cooling tower can't be missed), something like 50 miles from here, but I'd never heard of this one.

Could a nuclear reactor provide its hot cooling water (which is otherwise just dumped to Lake Ontario) to the city for heating—is nuclear cogeneration done anywhere? Or at least we could create a tropical bio-dome adjacent to the reactor. (I always thought that staunchly anti-nuclear Berkeley could easily be won over if the reactor supplied hot water to all the city's hot tubs.)