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"FAA bans most flights at airport"

Saturday, November 3, 2001

FAA bans most flights at airport
The Chicago (IL) Tribune


WAUKEGAN -- The Waukegan Regional Airport was closed to general aviation
Friday due to a Federal Aviation Administration order extending airspace
restrictions over the shuttered Zion nuclear plant.

The order, which runs from 4 p.m. Friday through 11 p.m. Tuesday,
prohibits general aviation except emergency-related flights within a
10-mile radius of the deactivated power plant, said FAA spokeswoman
Elizabeth Isham Cory. The order added several new sites to the list of
86 sensitive nuclear sites the FAA already had ordered restrictions on
earlier this week in response to the latest terrorist alert.

Tom Thompson, a line service technician at DB Aviation at the Waukegan
airport, said the order did not affect charters or commercial flights,
but would have an impact on the two flight schools at the airport and
private planes.

The Zion plant is no longer operating, but stores more than 1,100 tons
of spent fuel awaiting a site for permanent disposal.

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