 Some applications were made to reserve places in a queue for government incentives available for the first three plants based on each innovative reactor design.In May 2009, John Rowe, chairman of Exelon, which operates 17 nuclear reactors, stated that he would cancel or delay construction of two new reactors in Texas without federal loan guarantees.Following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, he remarked that the nuclear renaissance was dead.