The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will hold a public meeting on June 1 to discuss the future decommissioning plans for the Zion Nuclear Power Station, located in Zion, Illinois. Commonwealth Edison Company, owner of the plant, has no plans to dismantle the facility in the near future. When the plant shut down in February, the utility indicated that it will keep the facility in long-term safe storage until it begins dismantlement after 2010.
Parking is provided in the south parking lot.
Dr. Donald Moon, co-chairman of the Zion Community Advisory Panel and president of Shimer College, will be moderator. The meeting will include presentations by the NRC on the decommissioning regulatory process and by Commonwealth Edison on the status of Zion's decommissioning activities. A question and answer period will follow. Since the utility announced Zion's permanent shutdown in January, NRC has received the required certifications that power operations have ceased and that all nuclear fuel has been removed permanently from the reactor vessel. The fuel has been placed in the plant's onsite spent fuel pool.