1 March 2005. One of the Eyeball series.

See also 63 US Nuclear Power Plants:

npp/62npp-eyeball.htm

Few high-resolution satellite images of US nuclear power plants are available. Exceptions are this one at Dresden, IL, Braidwood, IL, Salem-Hope Creek, NJ, and Oyster Creek, NJ, available from USGS satellite photo coverage.

FEMA's formerly public emergency information for this plant now withdrawn

http://www.fema.gov/pte/rep/dresden.htm (now dead link)

Dresden Nuclear Generating Station

Location

• Grundy County, Illinois

Licensee

• Exelon Nuclear

Plume (10-mile) Emergency Planning Zone Jurisdictions (now dead link)

• In Illinois: Grundy, Kendall, and Will Counties

Ingestion (50-mile) Emergency Planning Zone Jurisdictions

• Illinois, Indiana

Qualifying Exercise

• October 28, 1980

Chronology of Past Exercises

• September 30, 1981; June 29, 1982; September 15, 1983; April 23, 1985; September 2, 1987; November 1, 1989; October 9, 1991; September 22, 1993; July 12-13, 1995;August 20, 1997; May 26,1999

Status of 350 Plan Approval (now dead link)

• Approved October 14, 1982

Status of Alert and Notification System (now dead link)

• Approved May 23, 1986

Exercise Schedule (now dead link)

Additional Plant Information [NRC's Nuclear Plant Information Books] (new, active link)

Updated: January 24, 2001

Eyeballing the Dresden Nuclear Generating Station

Dresden Nuclear Power Plant 2002 USGS photo (One-quarter full size, made available on June 9, 2003) http://seamless.usgs.gov

Dresden Nuclear Power Plant 2002 USGS photo (Full size, made available on June 9, 2003) http://seamless.usgs.gov