Market Conditions Shutter Three Illinois Reactors

Closures Portend Severe Economic, Environmental Impacts

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Exelon Corp. today announced the premature closing of three of the company’s 11 reactors in Illinois—the single-reactor Clinton Power Station and both reactors at the Quad Cities Generating Station. The company plans to shut down the Clinton station on June 1, 2017, and Quad Cities a year later. Following is a statement from Marvin Fertel, president and chief executive officer at the Nuclear Energy Institute.


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