Cooling tower

4 photos · 2017–2021

4 photographs tagged Cooling tower, 2017–2021.

Related: Power Plant Belgium Charleroi Monceau-sur-Sambre Downtown Minneapolis Kewaunee
The base of a cooling tower at the former Monceau-sur-Sambre power plant in Charleroi, Belgium, is overgrown with vegetation.
The base of a cooling tower at the former Monceau-sur-Sambre power plant in Charleroi, Belgium, stands amid dense vegetation on the abandoned industrial site. The tower was part of a coal-fired generating station in the Charleroi basin, one of Belgium’s major heavy-industry regions. By 2017, when this view was made, the plant had been closed and the remaining structures formed part of the post-industrial landscape left after the decline of coal-fired power generation in the area.

Charleroi Cooling Tower Base Overgrown

The Monceau-sur-Sambre cooling tower in Charleroi, Belgium, stands as a relic of the region's industrial past.
The Monceau-sur-Sambre cooling tower in Charleroi, Belgium, is a 118-meter reinforced-concrete hyperboloid built in the 1960s for the nearby power station. Its flared shell and vertical ribbing were designed to cool large volumes of circulating water used by the generating plant. The associated coal-fired station was taken out of service in the early 2000s, leaving the tower as one of the most prominent surviving industrial structures in the Charleroi area.

Monceau-sur-Sambre Cooling Tower, Charleroi

Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant's turquoise-striped containment dome and cooling structures on Lake Michigan's Wisconsin shoreline.
Kewaunee Power Station sits on the Lake Michigan shoreline in Carlton, Wisconsin, just south of the town of Kewaunee. The single-unit pressurized water reactor began commercial operation in 1974, built and originally operated by Wisconsin Public Service Corporation. Dominion Energy later took over the plant before its owners shut it down in 2013, citing economics rather than safety concerns. The containment structure, with its rounded dome and reinforced concrete walls, housed the reactor vessel that once generated enough electricity to power hundreds of thousands of homes. In 2022, ownership transferred to NorthStar Group for decommissioning, a process that includes dismantling the reactor systems and eventually restoring the site.

Reactor Containment Building at Kewaunee Power Station

Cooling towers stand beside U.S. Bank Stadium in downtown Minneapolis.
Cooling towers stand beside U.S. Bank Stadium in downtown Minneapolis on July 24, 2021. The stadium opened in 2016 as the home of the Minnesota Vikings and a venue for concerts, sports, and large public events. The equipment is located in the Downtown East area near the stadium and surrounding high-rise development.

Cooling Towers Beside U.S. Bank Stadium, Minneapolis

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