![]() Due to inflation and cost overruns, Clinton's final construction cost was $4.25 billion ($10.1 billion today), nearly 1,000% over the original budget of $430 million and seven years behind schedule. The power station began commercial operation on November 24, 1987 and has a nominal net electric output of 1062 MWe. Argonne National Labs – Once home to numerous reactors (Janus, CP-5, EBWR, Argonaut (CP-11), Juggernaut, etc.) and site of severe LLRW contamination.The Clinton Power Station is a nuclear power plant located near Clinton, Illinois, USA.Kerr-McGee thorium tailings in West Chicago (Reed-Keppler Park, and homes built on over radioactive thorium tailings).Radium contamination numerous places in Ottawa, IL (once proudly known as “Radium City”.) Thought to be from wristwatch manufacturing at The Radium Dial Company and Luminous Processes Incorporated.Ĭontaminated Sites Supposedly Cleaned Up:.Two Kerr-McGee sites in West Chicago (Kress Creek and a Sewage Treatment Plant) are contaminated by remains of over 6 million cubic feet of Thorium tailings resulting from the processing of Thorium for use in making gas lantern mantles.Exelon was forced to admit the leakage of over 6 million gallons of tritium-contaminated water from the Braidwood Nuclear Power Station, which occurred in 1995.PROPOSED RAIL ROUTES THROUGH ILLINOIS TO YUCCA MT., Nevada: Norfolk Southern Railroad Southern Pacific Railroad CSX Railroad Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad (ATSF), Chicago & Northwest Railroad (CNW), Conrail, and Grand Trunk Western Railroad (GTW).To Yucca Mountain, NV (if and when it opens): Each year approximately 300 tons of additional HLRW is generated by Exelon reactors in Illinois. Spent fuel at Illinois reactors: as of 2017, over 10,000 tons of spent reactor fuel is currently stored onsite at all Exelon reactors, awaiting the creation of a permanent disposal site for the radioactive waste, which was supposed to have been provided and opened by the Federal Government in 1997.A publicly accessible nuclear waste dump – perhaps the only one in the world! ![]() Manhattan Project Wastes buried in the Palos Forest Preserve in Red Gate Woods.Low-Level Radioactive Waste Dump in Sheffield, Illinois – (LLRW) closed in 1978 when it reached capacity, later it developed leaks and was abandoned by its operator (US Ecology).The GE Morris Operation – Storage for High Level Radioactive Waste.Argonne National Labs (Argonne, near Darrien, Woodridge and Lemont – all Chicago Suburbs).Research Facilities That Work With Radioactive Material: 10 Billion Gallons (that’s Billion with a “B”!) of contaminated groundwater Produced enriched uranium needed for reactor fuel from 1952 to 2013. Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant – In Paducah Kentucky, just across the Ohio River from Illinois.Converts uranium dioxide into uranium hexafluoride Honeywell Specialty Chemicals Plant in Metropolis, IL.University of Illinois TRIGA research reactor – Urbana/Champagne, IL.Quad Cities I, Quad Cities II – 20 miles northeast of Moline, IL.LaSalle I, LaSalle II – 11 miles southeast of Ottawa, IL.Dresden II, Dresden III – 9 miles east of Morris, IL.Clinton I – 6 miles east of Clinton, IL.Byron I, Byron II – 17 miles southwest of Rockford, IL.Braidwood I, Braidwood II – 20 miles south southwest of Joliet, IL.
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