Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 24 relations: Bill Dedman, Braidwood, Illinois, Byron Nuclear Generating Station, Chicago, Commonwealth Edison, Constellation Energy, District attorney, Energy Information Administration, Exelon, Illinois, Kilowatt-hour, LaSalle County Nuclear Generating Station, List of largest power stations in the United States, List of nuclear power stations, NBC News, Nuclear power plant, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Pressurized water reactor, Reed Township, Will County, Illinois, Tritium, United States dollar, Watt, Westinghouse Electric Company, Will County, Illinois.

2. Energy infrastructure completed in 1988
3. Exelon
4. Nuclear power plants in Illinois

Bill Dedman

Bill Dedman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative reporter and co-author of the biography of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark, Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune, which was number one on ''The New York Times'' bestseller list.

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Braidwood, Illinois

Braidwood is a city in Will County, Illinois, United States, approximately southwest of Chicago and south of Joliet.

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Byron Nuclear Generating Station

The Byron Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear power plant located in Ogle County, Illinois, east of the Rock River. Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station and Byron Nuclear Generating Station are Exelon, nuclear power plants in Illinois and nuclear power stations using pressurized water reactors.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Commonwealth Edison

Commonwealth Edison, commonly known by syllabic abbreviation as ComEd, is the largest electric utility in Illinois, and the primary electric provider in Chicago and much of Northern Illinois. Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station and Commonwealth Edison are Exelon.

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Constellation Energy

Constellation Energy Corporation is an American energy company headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station and Constellation Energy are Exelon.

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District attorney

In the United States, a district attorney (DA), county attorney, county prosecutor, state's attorney, prosecuting attorney, commonwealth's attorney, state attorney or solicitor is the chief prosecutor or chief law enforcement officer representing a U.S. state in a local government area, typically a county or a group of counties.

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Energy Information Administration

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating energy information to promote sound policymaking, efficient markets, and public understanding of energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment.

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Exelon

Exelon Corporation is a public utility headquartered in Chicago, and incorporated in Pennsylvania.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Kilowatt-hour

A kilowatt-hour (unit symbol: kW⋅h or kW h; commonly written as kWh) is a non-SI unit of energy equal to 3.6 megajoules (MJ) in SI units which is the energy delivered by one kilowatt of power for one hour.

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LaSalle County Nuclear Generating Station

LaSalle County Nuclear Generating Station, located in Brookfield Township, LaSalle County, Illinois, near Marseilles, southeast of Ottawa, serves Chicago and Northern Illinois with electricity. Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station and LaSalle County Nuclear Generating Station are Exelon and nuclear power plants in Illinois.

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List of largest power stations in the United States

This article lists the largest electricity generating stations in the United States in terms of installed electrical capacity.

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List of nuclear power stations

The following page lists operating nuclear power stations.

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NBC News

NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC.

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Nuclear power plant

A nuclear power plant (NPP) or atomic power station (APS) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor.

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Nuclear Regulatory Commission

The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with protecting public health and safety related to nuclear energy.

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Pressurized water reactor

A pressurized water reactor (PWR) is a type of light-water nuclear reactor.

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Reed Township, Will County, Illinois

Reed Township is located in Will County, Illinois.

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Tritium

Tritium or hydrogen-3 (symbol T or H) is a rare and radioactive isotope of hydrogen with half-life ~12.3 years.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

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Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3.

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Westinghouse Electric Company

Westinghouse Electric Company LLC is an American nuclear power company formed in 1999 from the nuclear power division of the original Westinghouse Electric Corporation.

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Will County, Illinois

Will County is a county in the northeastern part of the state of Illinois.

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See also

Energy infrastructure completed in 1988

• Banieya Dam
• Bhavani Kattalai Hydroelectric Project
• Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station
• Bullwinkle (oil platform)
• Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station
• Fayette Power Project
• Feroze Gandhi Unchahar Thermal Power Station
• Gem State Dam
• Gezhouba Dam
• Gordon Power Station
• HVDC Italy–Corsica–Sardinia
• Hitia'a Hydroelectric Power Station
• Imaichi Pumped Storage Power Station
• Kiambere Hydroelectric Power Station
• Konti–Skan
• Lower Mettur Hydroelectric Project
• Lucky Peak Dam
• Nine Mile Point Nuclear Generating Station
• Oseberg Transport System
• Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station
• Rihand Thermal Power Station
• Shimogo Pumped Storage Power Station
• Shisanling Pumped Storage Power Station
• Sikka Thermal Power Station
• Solar Energy Generating Systems
• South Texas Nuclear Generating Station
• Sultan Ismail Power Station
• Torness nuclear power station
• Trị An Dam
• Vetrino–Isaccea–Yuzhnoukrainsk powerline
• Virginia Smith Converter Station

Exelon

• Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
• Baltimore Gas and Electric
• Baltimore Gas and Electric Company Building
• Barbadoes Island (Pennsylvania)
• Black Rock Dam (Schuylkill River)
• Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station
• Byron Nuclear Generating Station
• Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant
• Charles P. Crane Generating Station
• Chester Waterside Station of the Philadelphia Electric Company
• Clinton Power Station
• Commonwealth Edison
• Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Montana
• Conowingo Dam
• Constellation Energy
• Criterion Wind Project
• Delmarva Power
• Dresden Generating Station
• Exelon
• Exelon Pavilions
• Fisk Generating Station
• Fricks Locks Historic District
• Gould Street Generating Station
• James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant
• Jim Edgar Panther Creek State Fish and Wildlife Area
• Kankakee River State Park
• LaSalle County Nuclear Generating Station
• Limerick Generating Station
• Muddy Run Pumped Storage Facility
• Nine Mile Point Nuclear Generating Station
• Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station
• PECO Building
• PECO Energy Company
• Peach Bottom Nuclear Generating Station
• Pepco
• Perryman Generating Station
• Piney Orchard, Maryland
• Pratt Street Power Plant
• Quad Cities Nuclear Generating Station
• R. E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant
• Riverside Generating Station
• Salem Nuclear Power Plant
• StarTex Power
• Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal
• Victoria County Station
• Zion Nuclear Power Station

Nuclear power plants in Illinois

• Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station
• Byron Nuclear Generating Station
• Clinton Power Station
• Dresden Generating Station
• LaSalle County Nuclear Generating Station
• Quad Cities Nuclear Generating Station
• Zion Nuclear Power Station

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braidwood_Nuclear_Generating_Station