Dresden Nuclear Power

Dresden nuclear power plant (United States)... 

The first commercial-size BWR was the Dresden Nuclear Power Plant. This plant was owned by the Commonwealth Edison Company and built by the General Electric Company at Dresden, Illinois (about 50 miles southwest of Chicago). The plant was a 200-MWe facility which operated from 1960 to 1978. 

USNRC Information Notice 94-38, Results of a special NRC inspection at Dresden nuclear power station Unit 1 following a rupture of service water inside containment. (Dresden Unit 1). 

Anon., 2016a. Dresden 1. [Online]. Available at http //www.nrc.gov/info-finder/decommis.sion-ing/power-reactor/dresden-nuclear-power-station-unit-l.html. [Accessed 1 May 2016]. 

Because of the success of the BWR experiments at Argonne and its Western test site in Idaho, the Commonwealth Edison Company signed a contract with GE to design and build the Dresden Nuclear Power Station. This would be the first purely commer-... 

GEODE [General Electric organic destruction] A development of the Ultrox process in which a combination of ozone and ultraviolet radiation is used to oxidize traces of organic compounds in water. Developed by the General Electric Company and demonstrated at the Commonwealth Edison nuclear power plant at Dresden, IL, in 1989. The requirement was to reduce the concentration of total organic carbon in the process and makeup waters to the low parts-per-billion range. 

AEG issued first construction permits for two large-scale nuclear power facilities—Consolidated Edison s Indian Point plant and Commonwealth Edison s Dresden reactor. Safeguards Committee sent cautionary letter to the Commission on the PRDC reactor. 

The commercial nuclear reactor market started to greatly expand after the launch of the Shippingport and Dresden plants. The number of commercial reactors increased after their initial PWR and BWR demonstration plants. The core size, thermal capacity, and electric capacity grew demonstrably as well. Table 6.2 shows the reactor type, capacity, and core vendor for the first 15 commercial reactors built in the US through 1970. This table shows the dramatic growth in reactor size during the first 13 years of the commercial nuclear power industry in the US. 

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