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Commitments And Contingencies (Tables)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Schedule of Insurance Coverage at Callaway Energy Center
The following table presents insurance coverage at Ameren Missouri’s Callaway energy center at March 31, 2015. The property coverage and the nuclear liability coverage must be renewed on April 1 and January 1, respectively, of each year. Both coverages were renewed in 2015.
Type and Source of Coverage
Maximum  Coverages
 
Maximum Assessments
for Single Incidents
 
Public liability and nuclear worker liability:
 
 
 
 
American Nuclear Insurers
$
375

  
$

  
Pool participation
13,241

(a) 
128

(b) 
 
$
13,616

(c) 
$
128

  
Property damage:
 
 
 
 
NEIL
$
2,750

(d) 
$
26

(e) 
European Mutual Association for Nuclear Insurance
500

(f) 

 
 
$
3,250

 
$
26

 
Replacement power:
 
 
 
 
NEIL
$
490

(g) 
$
9

(e) 
(a)
Provided through mandatory participation in an industrywide retrospective premium assessment program.
(b)
Retrospective premium under the Price-Anderson Act. This is subject to retrospective assessment with respect to a covered loss in excess of $375 million in the event of an incident at any licensed United States commercial reactor, payable at $19 million per year.
(c)
Limit of liability for each incident under the Price-Anderson liability provisions of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended. A company could be assessed up to $128 million per incident for each licensed reactor it operates with a maximum of $19 million per incident to be paid in a calendar year for each reactor. This limit is subject to change to account for the effects of inflation and changes in the number of licensed reactors.
(d)
NEIL provides $2.25 billion in property damage, decontamination, and premature decommissioning insurance for both radiation and nonradiation events. An additional $500 million is provided for radiation events only for a total of $2.75 billion.
(e)
All NEIL insured plants could be subject to assessments should losses exceed the accumulated funds from NEIL.
(f)
European Mutual Association for Nuclear Insurance provides $500 million in excess of the $2.75 billion and $2.25 billion property coverage for radiation and nonradiation events, respectively, provided by NEIL.
(g)
Provides replacement power cost insurance in the event of a prolonged accidental outage. Weekly indemnity up to $4.5 million for 52 weeks, which commences after the first twelve weeks of an outage, plus up to $3.6 million per week for a minimum of 71 weeks thereafter for a total not exceeding the policy limit of $490 million. Nonradiation events are sub-limited to $328 million.
Schedule of Asbestors-Related Litigation Pending Lawsuits
The following table presents the pending asbestos-related lawsuits filed against the Ameren Companies as of March 31, 2015:
Ameren
 
Ameren
Missouri
 
Ameren
Illinois
 
Total(a)
1
 
42
 
53
 
65
(a)
Total does not equal the sum of the subsidiary unit lawsuits because some of the lawsuits name multiple Ameren entities as defendants.