Detroit Edison Company

A CONAC system, "Sulfcoalyzer, has been installed at Detroit Edison Company s Monroe, Michigan, power station (11) This plant is a four unit complex rated at 3000 megawatts The Sulfcoalyzer cost 500,000 and will be used to control the coal blending facility Operating data from this installation are not available A second CONAC system will be installed at the Tennessee Valley Authority, Kingston, Tennessee, steam plant ... 

Headed by James W. Parker, president of the Detroit Edison Company, the committee included senior officials of the electric-power industry and industrial-research corporations. After a year s work the group s final report recommended that more technical information be declassified and published and that more contact be allowed between AEC staff, contractors, and industry representatives. The report, however, did not indicate what was perhaps the committee s most positive contribution to atomic-power development. Its work provided knowledge of Commission activities to its members, who were influential leaders of American industry. ... 

The Power Reactor Development Company, a consortium led by the Detroit Edison Company, signed a contract with the AEC for a fast-breeder reactor in mid-1956. The last of the round-one proposals, the Power Reactor Development Compan/s plant became involved in a legal and political dispute that resulted in long delays. ... 

Atomic Power Development Associates (APDA)—A nonprofit technical consortium organized by the Detroit Edison Company to design and conduct research on a commercial fast-breeder reactor. 

Power Reactor Development Company (PRDC)—Consortium of utilities headed by the Detroit Edison Company formed to construct, own, and operate a commercial fast-breeder reactor at Lagoona Beach, Michigan. 

Monsanto Chemical Company/Union Electric Company, "Plutonium-Power Reactor Feasibility Study" Dow Chemical Company/Detroit Edison Company, "Study of Materials and Power Producing Reactors" Commonwealth Edison Company/Public Service Company, "Report on Power Generation Using Nuclear Energy" Pacific Gas and Electric Company/Bechtel Corporation, "Industrial Reactor Study," Development of Atomic Power File, AEC/DOE. 

As a part of the power demonstration program of the AFC in the 1950s, the Enrico Fermi fast breeder reactor (Fermi-1) was built near Detroit by a consortium of companies led by Detroit Edison. Fermi-1 used enriched uranium as fuel and sodium as coolant, and produced 61 MWe. It suffered a partial fuel melting accident in 1966 as the result of a blockage of core coolant flow by a metal plate. The reactor was repaired but shut down permanently in November 1972 because of lack of binding. Valuable experience was gained from its operation, however (58). 

CM 1093 (28 June 1955), AEC/DOE AEC 785/6 (8 Aug. 1955), AEC/NRC. Letters were sent to the following probable operators Detroit Edison, Yankee Electric Company, Consumers Public Power District, Consolidated Edison of New York, Commonwealth Edison and to the following vendors North American Aviation, AMF Atomics, Babcock and Wilcox, General Electric, and Westinghouse. 

The January 1956 application for a constmetion permit to build the Enrico Fermi plant proved particularly contentious. The application was filed by the Power Reactor Development Company (PRDC), a consortium of utilities led by Detroit Edison. The fast breeder reactor that PRDC planned was far more technologically advanced than the light water reactors planned for Dresden 1 and Indian Point 1. The ACRS review of the PRDC application concluded that "there is insufficient information available at this time to give assurance that the PRDC reactor can be operated at this site without public hazard" The ACRS expressed... 

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