Zion, on the shores of Lake Michigan, housed two sets of water under pressure: Unit 1 operated from 1973 to 1997; Unit 2 from 1974 to 1996. Both were declared permanently closed in 1998 through the factory operator at that time, Commonwealth Edison (which is the component of Exelon). In 2010, reactor licenses were transferred to the Energy Subsidiary Zionasolutions in a first degree provision for accelerated degradation. Zion sets are now components of the energy constellation portfolio from the separation of regulated and competitive energy corporations of the Exelon generation.
The way we were: Both Zion sets operated until the late 1990s. (Image: NRC)
The release of use for useless use means that any residual radiation is a decrease that the limits of the NRC and that will no longer be under the regulatory controls of the CNRC, said the regulator. The determination of the CNRC according to which Zionnsolutions has satisfactorily ended the degradation of the factory and the decontamination of the fulfillment with the radiation criteria of the agency, opening the path to the sions of the areas to move the expected license of the fuel garage plant to the production of power from the constellation, which will be a session for the safety and coverage of the installation of the installation of the installation of the installation of the installation of the installation of the installation of the installation of the installation of the installation They spend until a constellation or permanent power of the constellation or permanent constellation or a permanent constellation or permanence of the constellation or a permanent available is spent.
According to Constellation, the 10-year, 10-year allocation to break up the Zion factory is the largest decommissioning of nuclear power plants ever conducted in the United States.
The constellation is loose to use the rest of the old factory for any application, said the CNRC.