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Small amounts of radioactive water and steam accidentally escaped early Friday morning from Unit 2 of the Dresden nuclear power station near Morris, Ill., following a power failure, officials said.… ...
Commonwealth Edison's Dresden Nuclear Power Station Unit 3 is back on-line, after setting a new refueling outage duration record for U.S. boiling water reactors of 17 days, 23 hours and 55 minutes.
MORRIS, Ill. (WLS) -- Exelon Generation announced Thursday it is retiring its Byron and Dresden generating stations in fall of 2021. The Byron location will close in September of next year, and ...
Said Dresden station manager Heffley, “We are having a hard time, but we are making some progress.” Some of that progress is being made on maintenance backlogs, a long-standing problem at Dresden.
MORRIS, Ill. (AP) -- Exelon Corp. says one of its nuclear reactors at the Dresden Generating Station in Morris, Ill. has been taken offline for maintenance. Spokesman Bob Osgood says Unit 2 was ...
Exelon Corp <EXC.N> shut the 867-megawatt Unit 2 at the Dresden nuclear power station in Illinois for planned refueling and maintenance early Monday, the company said in a release.
The 1,734 MW Dresden station is located in Morris in Grundy County about 60 miles southeast of Chicago. The plant's two 867 MW Units 2 and 3 entered service in 1970 and 1971. Unit 3 continued to ...
MORRIS, Ill. (AP) - Exelon Generation is holding its annual open house at its Dresden Generating Station in northern Illinois. The event will be held from 10 a.m. until noon on Saturday, and is ...
Station Info. About ABC7 Chicago ... Morris nuclear plant conducts drill. wls. By ABC7. Thursday, March 24, 2011. March 23, 2011 (JOLIET, Ill.) The Dresden nuclear power plant is in Morris.