NUCLEAR MATERIALS SAFEGUARDS - A UTILITY VIEWPOINT

Good afternoon, I am going to discuss nuclear materials safeguards from the utilities' viewpoint, and include some suggestions which we feel, from our experience, will help bring about effective and economical safeguards. But first, as a background for my remarks, let me describe briefly Commonwealth Edison's commitment to nuclear power. Our entry into the nuclear world dates back twenty years, when in 1951 we were selected by the Atomic Energy Commission as one of four study teams from private industry to explore the possibility of producing electricity from nuclear energy. This study led to our decision in 1955 to build Dresden 1, a 200-MWe boiling water reactor. Dresden 1 went into commercial service in I960, and has generated almost 11 billion kilowatthours of electricity. In 1965, after more than four years' successful experience with Dresden 1, we ordered Dresden 2, end the following year purchased Dresden 3, both from General Electric. Unit 2 is on line now, and Unit 3 is scheduled to make power this summer.