BRAIDWOOD, Ill. (WLS) -- The ABC7 I-Team looked at a close call for a nuclear plant when one of Monday night's twisters brushed by the Braidwood generating station. Braidwood was built to take a ...

On March 29, 1985, 24 quality-control inspectors at the construction site of the Braidwood nuclear power plant 55 miles southwest of Chicago marched into the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission o… ...

Constellation Energy Corporation CEG is leveraging its capital spending to enhance the reliability and efficiency of its ...

The back yard of Commonwealth Edison’s Braidwood Nuclear Power Station, 50 miles southwest of Chicago, is home to hundreds of birds, fish and other wildlife.While fishermen reel in 20-pound ...

Lopykinski said the plant's five-foot-thick, reinforced concrete construction is built to withstand winds of at least 300 miles an hour. In addition, she said, there are multiple layers of "back ...

Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered data centers have become a booming industry now. The energy-hungry AI space has made ...

Federal officials are looking into the concerns of some Braidwood residents who think the local nuclear-power plant is the cause of their illnesses. 2 Investigator Dave Savini reports.

Exelon has taken its nuclear-powered Braidwood Generating Station Unit 1 out of service for a planned refueling outage. The refueling and maintenance outages typically last approximately a month.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff issued its final safety evaluation report (SER) for proposed operating license renewals for two nuclear power plants in Illinois.

The nuclear Braidwood Generating Station, about 60 miles southwest of Chicago in Will County, is one of three nuclear plants Exelon said it would close if it didn’t reach a deal with the ...

The Braidwood nuclear power plant outside of Chicago plans its refueling operations two years in advance. Since the coronavirus pandemic spread around the world, it has had to make last-minute ...

Exelon officials say the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved licenses for the Braidwood Generating Station southwest of Chicago for another 20 years.