Dresden Nuclear Power Plant

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. 

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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