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Two Westinghouse AP 1000 reactors can be built at Southern’s Vogtle nuclear plant near Waynesboro, Georgia, “without undue risk to the health and safety of the public,” the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards said in a Jan. 24 letter released today by the NRC.

Southern Co., the biggest U.S. utility owner by market value, will invest as much as $17 billion during the next three years to meet energy demands for a recovering economy.

A federal advisory panel announced Tuesday that a nuclear reactor slated for use across the Southeast -- including the Progress Energy plants planned for Levy County -- is reasonably safe, a step forward for utility firms hoping to build a new wave of nuclear power plants.

GEH today announced its next-generation reactor model has passed a crucial safety review performed by an advisory committee for the NRC.

Exelon Nuclear Texas Holdings LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Exelon Generation, today filed an "early site permit" application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for an 11,500-acre site in Victoria County, Texas.

NuStart Energy Development is working with Southern Company and the Tennessee Valley Authority to take the next step toward demonstrating the nation’s new process for licensing a nuclear power plant and bringing advanced nuclear technologies to market.

Detroit Edison (NYSE: DTE) officials today submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission a Combined License Application for a possible new nuclear power plant at the site of the company's existing nuclear plant near Newport, Michigan.

Progress Energy Florida, a subsidiary of Progress Energy announced that it submitted a COL application to construct two Westinghouse AP1000tm nuclear reactors in Levy County, Florida.

South Carolina Electric & Gas Company (SCE&G), principal subsidiary of SCANA Corporation, and Santee Cooper, a state-owned electric and water utility in South Carolina, submitted an application for a COL) that would authorize the companies to build and operate up to two new nuclear electric generating units at the utilities’ existing V.C. Summer Nuclear Station site in Jenkinsville, S.C.

Entergy and NuStart Energy Development announce the submittal of a COL for a potential new nuclear unit in Port Gibson, Miss. The application seeks regulatory approvals to potentially build a new unit adjacent to Entergy’s existing Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, a reactor that ranks third among the nation’s 104 nuclear plants for total electricity output over its lifetime of commercial operations. The Grand Gulf license application uses the GE Hitachi ESBWR technology, a design referenced in late 2007 in a similar license application submitted by Dominion Virginia Power. NuStart worked with Dominion to help develop that reference application.

NuStart Energy Development says the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) acceptance of a license application for TVA’s Bellefonte nuclear site shows the electric power industry is taking the right steps to prepare for potential new nuclear construction.

Duke Energy submitted a COL application for a proposed two-unit nuclear station in Cherokee County, S.C. The proposed two-unit William States Lee III Nuclear Station will have a capacity of 2,234 megawatts. In 2005, Duke Energy announced plans to pursue a new nuclear station in the Carolinas, and began preparing the COL application for two Westinghouse AP1000 generating units.

As the site owner and applicant utility, TVA joined NuStart Energy in submitting an application for a COL for a proposed new nuclear power plant at its Bellefonte nuclear site near Scottsboro, Alabama. “Submitting the reference application — developed by NuStart—for a Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear plant is the first step of a comprehensive NRC review process that will simplify license applications for future plants of the same design,” said TVA Chief Operating Officer Bill McCollum.

NuStart selects final sites for combined construction and operating licenses for new nuclear plants

NUSTART NEWS RELEASE — Washington — NuStart Energy signes a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. DOE to demonstrate the NRC licensing process and to complete the designs for the first advanced nuclear power reactors in the U.S. in 30 years.

NUSTART NEWS RELEASE — Washington — Progress Energy, a leading operator of nuclear power plants in the Carolinas and Florida, has joined eight other energy companies and two reactor vendors to demonstrate the new Construction and Operating Licensing (COL) process for a new nuclear power plant.