. The changing Illinois environment : critical trends : technical report of the Critical Trends Assessment Project. Man; Pollution; Environmental protection; Ecology; Environmental impact analysis. ELECTRICITY GENERATION oil, firom gas and from nuclear. Between 1960 and 1990 total generation grew 200%; however most of the growth was accomodated by nuclear power. yv^. Figure 26. Electric utility emissions (tons/year). Statewide emissions from all utility fossil fuels have declined substantially over the past twenty years. SO2 declined 40%, NOx 19%, particulates 81%, and CO 36%. On th
. The changing Illinois environment : critical trends : technical report of the Critical Trends Assessment Project. Man; Pollution; Environmental protection; Ecology; Environmental impact analysis. ELECTRICITY GENERATION oil, firom gas and from nuclear. Between 1960 and 1990 total generation grew 200%; however most of the growth was accomodated by nuclear power. yv^. Figure 26. Electric utility emissions (tons/year). Statewide emissions from all utility fossil fuels have declined substantially over the past twenty years. SO2 declined 40%, NOx 19%, particulates 81%, and CO 36%. On the other hand, the level of radioactiv- ity from low-level nuclear wastes (using the five-year average) increased from thousand curies in 1983 to ^proximately 41 thousand curies in 1991, even while the volume of wastes declined. REFERENCES Central Illinois Light Company, Annual Report of Electric Utilities to the llUnois Commerce Commission, FERC Form 21, 1991. Central Illinois Light Company, Steam Electric Plant Operations and Design Report, Form EIA-767, 1989-1991. Commonwealth Edison, Annual Report, 1992. Commonwealth Edison, Annual Report of Electric Utilities to the Illinois Commerce Commission, FERC Form 21, 1991. Commonwealth Edison, Steam Electric Plant Operations and Design Report, Form EIA-767, 1989-1991. Edison Electric Institute, Statistical Yearbook of the Electric Utility Industry, 1970-1990, New York, NY. Hafele, Wolf, "Energy from Nuclear Power", Scientific American, September 1990. Illinois Commerce Commission, Report to the General Assembly on the Status of Illinois Utility Compliance with Section of the Public UtiUty Act, 1991. Illinois Department of Energy and Natural Resources, Illinois Energy Consumption Trends, ILLDOE 81/29. Illinois Department of Energy and Natural Resources, Overview of Trends in the Illinois Electric Utility Industry, ILDOE 82/04. Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety, Annual Survey Report, 1991. Illinois Electric
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