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• Differences Between "Mr. Nuke" - John Rowe - and "Atomic Rod" Adams

  John Rowe, the man that Fortune Magazine once called "Mr. Nuke" in a May 15, 2006 article titled Meet Mr. Nuke and I have a few things in common. We were both given a copy of Richard Halliburton's Book of Marvels, a two volume set of travel books that divided the world into two areas, the Occident and the Orient. We both keep the books in our libraries. We each had two parents who were... Posted Dec 31 2009, 06:43 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Exelon, John Rowe

• Differing Perspectives on New Nuclear Power Driven Partially By Different Positions in Society

  During his appearance on Friday, October 30, 2009, John Rowe told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee believes that there is no market need to push the development of new nuclear power plants. He also stated that his staff has computed that power from new nuclear power plants can only be competitive in the market under conditions of a $75.00 per ton cost for carbon dioxide. Here is a... Posted Nov 01 2009, 06:54 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Exelon, John Rowe

• Ontario and Exelon Both Delay Nuclear Projects

  The Associated Press is reporting that Exelon will be delaying its proposed two unit nuclear reactor development near Victoria, Texas. The company attributed the decision to the difficult financial markets and its failure to make the cut for the first round of US Department of Energy loan guarantees. People who have been following this project for some time will remember that Exelon initially proposed... Posted Jul 01 2009, 04:25 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Exelon, DOE, ontario

• Unfriending Exelon - I take back all of the positive articles I have written about the company

  Social media sites like Facebook and LiveJournal have added several new words to our American lexicon; one that I want to explore today is "unfriend" . In the Facebook vocabulary, that is a term that means quietly striking someone off of your computerized list of "friends". Those are the people that you care enough about to wonder what they are doing and to allow them to know what... Posted Feb 05 2009, 02:19 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: NRG, Exelon, opinion

• Exelon's Strategy is Working for Stockholders but not Always for Customers

  Exelon is the largest electricity supplier in the country. It also owns and operates the largest fleet of nuclear power plants, with a total of 17 operational reactors that have an average capacity factor well in excess of 90%. Last week, it reported a 26% increase in its 4th quarter profit figures compared to the same period last year with a reported profit of $707 million in 2008 compared to $562... Posted Jan 24 2009, 06:08 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Exelon

• Exelon reevaluating its choice of ESBWR

  Exelon announced last year that it was basing its future project in Texas on GE's ESBWR design. That choice, however, may be reevaluated as Exelon's internal reviewers obtain more information about the technical readiness of the design. Here is a quote from a November 25 article in the Chicago Tribune titled Exelon rethinks design for proposed reactor . "Exelon said it is currently "considering... Posted Nov 25 2008, 08:52 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Exelon, ESBWR

• Did you hear about the fly ash leaks?

  A year or so ago, there was a huge uproar about tritium that was found in groundwater on the plant site at Braidwood, one of Exelon's nuclear facilities. The plant operator determined that the source of tritium was from a a leaking discharge pipe that normally carries non radioactive circulating water back to the Kankakee River. That same discharge pipe is also used for small, planned, allowed... Posted Oct 03 2007, 04:13 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: tritium, Exelon