No environmental issues seen with new Mississippi nuclear unit

No environmental issues seen with new Mississippi nuclear unit

Washington (Platts)--6Apr2006

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff said there are no
environmental issues that would prevent the agency from issuing an early site
permit to an Entergy Nuclear subsidiary that is considering building a nuclear
power plant at the Grand Gulf site near Vicksburg, Mississippi.

In a final environmental impact statement issued Wednesday, staff also
found there were "no environmentally preferable or obviously superior sites"
for the possible new plant.

Entergy subsidiary System Energy Resources submitted an early site permit
request to NRC in October 2003. If approved, the permit would allow SERI up to
20 years to decide whether to build another unit at the Mississippi site. A
final NRC decision is expected in early 2007.

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