Talks may occur in next year on first new US power reactors

Washington (Platts)--3Jan2006

Spent fuel contract talks may have to take place in the next year or so for 
companies planning to license and build some of the first new power reactors
in the US, according to Nuclear Energy Institute legal counsel Mike Bauser. 

Although a negotiated contract for the disposal of a reactor's spent fuel
would not have to be in place when an application is filed with NRC for a
combined construction permit-operating license, one would be needed for the
issuance of the license, Bauser said in an interview yesterday. A contract
would be required whether a new reactor is built on a greenfield or at an
existing nuclear power plant site, he said.
 
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