Dresden Generating Station
Dresden Generating Station is the first privately financed nuclear power plant built in the United States. Dresden 1 was activated in 1960 and retired in 1978.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Power station
- Description: Nuclear power plant in Grundy County, Illinois
- Also known as: “Dresden Nuclear Power Station” and “Dresden Station Nuclear Powerplant”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Morris Operation.
Morris Operation
The Morris Operation in Grundy County, Illinois, United States, is the location of the only permanent de facto high-level radioactive waste storage site in the United States and holds 772 tons of spent nuclear fuel. Morris Operation is situated 4,200 feet southwest of Dresden Generating Station.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Channahon and Minooka.
Channahon
Town
Photo: LittleT889, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Channahon is a village in Grundy and Will counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. The population was 13,383 at the 2020 census. Located in a rural area southwest of Joliet, Illinois, Channahon lies at the confluence of the Des Plaines, Kankakee, and DuPage rivers, where they form the Illinois River. Channahon is situated 3½ miles northeast of Dresden Generating Station.
Minooka
Town
Photo: Jet Lowe, Public domain.
Minooka is a village in Grundy, Kendall, and Will counties, Illinois, United States. The population was 12,758 at the 2020 census, up from 10,924 at the 2010 census. The village is part of the Chicago metropolitan area. Minooka is situated 4½ miles north of Dresden Generating Station.
Dresden Generating Station
- Categories: nuclear power plant and industry
- Location: Goose Lake Township, Grundy, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.38972° or 41° 23′ 23″ northLongitude
-88.26835° or 88° 16′ 6″ westElevation
518 feet (158 metres)Inception
August 1970Operator
ExelonOpen location code
86HH9PQJ+VMOpenStreetMap ID
way 43929754OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrial
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Dresden Generating Station” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محطة دريسدن النووية”
- Chinese: “德累斯頓核電站”
- Chinese: “德累斯顿核电站”
- Czech: “Dresden-1”
- French: “Centrale nucleaire de Dresden”
- French: “centrale nucléaire de Dresden”
- French: “Centrale nucléaire de Dresden”
- German: “Kernkraftwerk Dresden”
- German: “KKW Dresden”
- Japanese: “ドレスデン原子力発電所”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dresden kjernekraftverk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dresden Nuclear kjernekraftverk”
- Norwegian: “Dresden kjernekraftverk”
- Polish: “Elektrownia jądrowa Dresden”
- Russian: “АЭС Дрезден”
- Spanish: “Central Nuclear Dresden”
- Spanish: “Dresden Nuclear Power Plant”
- Spanish: “Planta de energia nuclear Dresden”
- Spanish: “Planta de energía nuclear Dresden”
- Swedish: “Dresden Clean Energy Center”
- Ukrainian: “АЕС Дрезден”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Dresden Generating Station”. Photo: ENERGY.GOV, Public domain.