...Illinois (click here) was also home to the first commercial power reactor, (click here) Unit 1 at Commonwealth Edison's Dresden Power Station. Subsequent problems forced the permanent shutdown of this unit, thus also making it one of the first commercial power reactors to close prematurely....
I find it more than interesting that Illinois was the beginning of electrical generation by nuclear chain reaction and it has one of the largest deposits of spent nuclear fuel in the country. Over 10,000 metric tons.
