DescriptionAEC-70-8698 An 800-TON NUCLEAR VESSEL FOR COMMONWEALTH EDISON'S DRESDEN-2 UNIT dwarfed onlookers as it left the Babcock & Wilcox, Mount Vernon, Indiana, facility where it was fabricated for the General Electric Company. It is 72 ft. long and 22 ft. in diameter. Heat from the nuclear reaction contained in the vessel will produce steam sufficient to generate 809 megawatts of electrical power when the Dresden-2 unit went into operation early in 1970. Dresdsn-3, another 809 Mwe. General Electric boiling water reactor unit in expected to go into operation at the Morris, Illinois, site later in the year. The initial unit, Dresden-1, which has been producing 200 Mwe. since 1959, was approaching the 10-billion kilowatt-hour mark at the end of 1969. Credit: Babcock & Wilcox
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