NuStart Announces Top Sites Selected to Build New Nuclear Units
- LCG, May 20, 2005-- NuStart Energy Development, LLC yesterday announced
its six top sites for constructing new nuclear reactors. Following further
review, including discussions with state and local agencies, NuStart will
select two finalists in October of this year. NuStart will then prepare
applications to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a combined
construction and operating license (COL). One application will be for a
General Electric (GE) Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor and one
application will be for a Westinghouse Advanced Passive 1000 reactor.
- The six finalists sites are: Bellefonte Nuclear Plant, Alabama, owned by
the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA); Grand Gulf Nuclear Station,
Mississippi, owned by Entergy Nuclear; River Bend Nuclear Station,
Louisiana, owned by Entergy Nuclear; Savannah River Site, South Carolina, a
Department of Energy facility; Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, Maryland,
owned by Constellation Energy; and Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, New
York, owned by Constellation Energy.
- NuStart was founded in 2004 and includes Exelon, Entergy, Southern
Company, Constellation, Duke Energy, the Tennessee Valley Authority, Florida
Power & Light, Progress Energy, EDF International, and the two reactor
vendors, GE and Westinghouse Electric.
- Earlier this week, Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman outlined plans designed
to reduce nuclear project risks in order to alleviate investor concerns
regarding project delays. The Energy Department plan would create a $3
billion insurance pool to protect investors with respect to interest,
operating, maintenance and construction costs caused by regulatory delays.
The insurance would apply to each of the first two plants built using the
new Westinghouse design and the new General Electric design. Insurance
premiums would be waived for orders placed before 2009.
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