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NASDAQ.com published a Dow Jones news wire story about a recent talk given by John Rowe, CEO of Exelon, to the American Enterprise Institute. The article headline is Exelon CEO: No New US Laws Needed To Shift To Cleaner Energy , and indicates a rather significant course change for a man who has been...

I had an opportunity to chat with David Hollein, a man who has been campaigning to reopen the Zion Nuclear Power Plant for more than a dozen years. His efforts were the initial inspiration for Nancy Horner, a lady who is working hard to convince Exelon to operate a nuclear plant in her hometown . David...

About six weeks ago, I wrote about Nancy Thorner's relatively lonely effort to encourage Exelon, the largest owner/operator of nuclear power facilities in the United States, to operate a nuclear plant in her backyard. Nancy's effort has a giant advantage over those of several other groups around...

I received a depressing press release last evening. Exelon has announced a decision to close Oyster Creek in 2019, 10 years before the expiration of its current operating license. The company has announced that the decision is based on several factors. As the plant ages the cost of maintenance gradually...

Satellite View of Zion Nuclear Power Station There were two contrasting announcements of decisions on the fate of silent, but potentially productive nuclear power stations in the past week. On the positive side, the Tennessee Valley Authority's board of directors included $248 million for engineering...

As a student of the electrical power industry's history, I have found many stories of a long running competition between public and private power suppliers. For most of my life, this discussion has been rather muted, with private forces seeming to have conquered the battlefield. The vast majority...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...