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Exelon Corporation
Exelon Corporation
12/10/2012 | Press release
Dresden Station Workers Complete Unit 3 Refueling Outage
distributed by noodls on 12/10/2012 17:37
Operators return Dresden Unit 3 to full power
MORRIS, Ill. (Dec. 10, 2012) -Operators returned Dresden
Generating Station Unit 3 to full power at 1:54 a.m. today
following the completion of the unit's 22nd refueling
outage.
During the outage, Exelon employees and supplemental
workers performed more than 11,000 activities, including
equipment upgrades, safety inspections, tests and plant
improvements. The unit began its scheduled refueling outage
on Monday, Nov. 12.
"The replacement of the unit's low pressure turbines and
the other work completed during the outage will help ensure
safe, reliable and efficient operation of Unit 3," said
Dresden Site Vice President David Czufin.
Dresden Unit 2 continued to operate during the Unit 3
refueling outage.
Dresden Generating Station is approximately 60 miles
southwest of Chicago. The station's two operating units can
produce more than 1,800 megawatts, enough electricity to
power nearly 2 million average homes. Dresden Unit 1, which
began commercial operation in 1960 and was retired in 1978,
has been designated a Nuclear Historic Landmark by the
American Nuclear Society.
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About Exelon
Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC) is the nation's leading competitive energy provider, with approximately $33 billion in annual revenues. Headquartered in Chicago, Exelon has operations and business activities in 47 states, the District of Columbia and Canada. Exelon is the largest competitive U.S. power generator, with approximately 35,000 megawatts of owned capacity comprising one of the nation's cleanest and lowest-cost power generation fleets. The company's Constellation business unit provides energy products and services to approximately 100,000 business and public sector customers and approximately 1 million residential customers. Exelon's utilities deliver electricity and natural gas to more than 6.6 million customers in central Maryland (BGE), northern Illinois (ComEd) and southeastern Pennsylvania (PECO).
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