The future of nuclear power

The Annual Illinois Energy Conference is a fitting location to review the future of nuclear power. No part of the country has had a longer involvement with this energy source, or has a greater stake in its economic and safe application. It was, of course, right here in Chicago that Enrico Fermi first demonstrated the reactor concept forty-two years ago. And later, when nuclear energy was ready for commercial application, Commonwealth Edison was one of the leaders. The successful operation of the first Dresden reactor in the early 1960's -- along with that of the first Yankee reactor in New England -- was instrumental in getting commercial nuclear power really going in the United States, and in the rest of the world as well