Exelon

Exelon Corporation, ^{[1] (http://www.nuclearspin.org/index.php/Exelon#endnote_ex)} based in Chicago, is one of the US's largest electric utilities. The company has one of the industry's largest portfolios of electricity generation capacity, with a nationwide reach and strong positions in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic. Exelon distributes electricity to approximately 5.1 million customers in northern Illinois and Pennsylvania. Exelon Nuclear, a division of Exelon Corporation, owns and operates 17 nuclear reactors at 10 sites in Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, making it the largest nuclear operator in the US, and the third largest in the world. The stations are: Braidwood, Byron, Clinton, Dresden, LaSalle County, Limerick, Oyster Creek, Peach Bottom, Quad Cities, and Three Mile Island Unit 1.

Exelon is a member of the NuStart Consortium, ^{[2] (http://www.nuclearspin.org/index.php/Exelon#endnote_ns)} but has also applied for an early site permit for its Clinton site in central Illinois, which is currently home to one reactor. The U.S. Department of Energy has agreed to pay $6.3 million of the $13.9 million total cost through 2006. That means 45% of the costs are being met by taxpayer funds. ^{[3] (http://www.nuclearspin.org/index.php/Exelon#endnote_pc)}

Exelon is a member of the Nuclear Energy Institute and the World Nuclear Association.

References

^ Exelon website, accessed December 2006 (http://www.exeloncorp.com/ourcompanies/powergen/nuclear/), undated.

^ NuStart Consortium website, accessed December 2006 (http://www.nustartenergy.com/Consortium.aspx)

^ Puclic Citizen Critical Mass Energy Project website, accessed December 2006 (http://www.citizen.org/cmep/energy_enviro_nuclear/newnukes/clinton/), undated.