Unit 1: May 1, 1956 Unit 2: January 10, 1966 Unit 3: October 14, 1966
Commission date
Unit 1: July 4, 1960 Unit 2: June 9, 1970 Unit 3: November 16, 1971
Decommission date
Unit 1: October 31, 1978
Construction cost
Unit 1: $423 million (2010 USD) or $577 million in 2023 dollars[1] Unit 2: $856 million (2010 USD) or $1.17 billion in 2023 dollars[1] Unit 3: $828 million (2010 USD) or $1.13 billion in 2023 dollars[1]
Owner(s)
Constellation Energy
Operator(s)
Constellation Energy
Nuclear power station
Reactor type
BWR
Reactor supplier
General Electric
Cooling towers
4 × Mechanical Draft (supplemental only)
Cooling source
Direct open-cycle mode:[a] Closed-cycle mode:[b] Indirect open-cycle mode:[c]
Thermal capacity
1 × 700 MWth (decommissioned) 2 × 2957 MWth
Power generation
Units operational
1 × 902 MW 1 × 895 MW
Make and model
Unit 1: BWR-1 (Mark 1) Units 2–3: BWR-3 (Mark 1)
Units decommissioned
1 × 197 MW
Nameplate capacity
1797 MW
Capacity factor
98.13% (2017) 73.30% (lifetime, excluding Unit 1)
Annual net output
15,447 GWh (2017)
External links
Website
Dresden Generating Station
Commons
Related media on Commons
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Control room of Dresden Station circa 1962
Dresden Generating Station (also known as Dresden Nuclear Power Plant or Dresden Nuclear Power Station) is the first privately financed nuclear power plant built in the United States. Dresden 1 was activated in 1960 and retired in 1978. Operating since 1970 are Dresden units 2 and 3, two General Electric BWR-3 boiling water reactors. Dresden Station is located on a 953-acre (386 ha) site in Grundy County, Illinois, at the head of the Illinois River, near the city of Morris. It is immediately northeast of the Morris Operation—the only de facto high-level radioactive waste storage site in the United States. It serves Chicago and the northern quarter of the state of Illinois, capable of producing 867 megawatts of electricity from each of its two reactors, enough to power over one million average American homes.
In 2004, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) renewed the operating licenses for both reactors, extending them from forty years to sixty.[2]
^ abcJohnston, Louis; Williamson, Samuel H. (2023). "What Was the U.S. GDP Then?". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved November 30, 2023. United States Gross Domestic Product deflator figures follow the MeasuringWorth series.
^"Dresden and Quad Cities, Nuclear Power Stations — License Renewal Application". U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). February 13, 2007. Retrieved 2008-11-19.
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