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30 October 2007 -- The Tennessee Valley Authority filed an application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build two new nuclear power reactors at a site in Alabama.
TVA plans to build the reactors at the site of the partially completed and then mothballed Bellefonte nuclear power station near Scottsboro, Ala. TVA and NuStart have been working on the proposal for two years.
The application will be the second filed with the NRC for new nuclear power plants in just over a month. NRG Energy Inc. submitted an application on Sept. 25 to build and operate two new reactor units at its Bay City, Texas, power plant site.
The TVA application will be the first involving construction of a Westinghouse AP1000 advanced reactor, made by Westinghouse Electric Co., which is owned by Japan's Toshiba Corp. The two reactors being planned by NRG Energy are boiling water reactors made by General Electric Co.
The TVA operates six nuclear reactors. It restarted its Browns Ferry Unit 1 reactor in Alabama last summer after a lengthy shutdown. In 1996 it began operating Unit 1 at Watts Bar in Tennessee, the last new nuclear reactor to come on line in the United States.
The Bellefonte site is the location of two partially completed nuclear reactors that TVA canceled and never finished. The site has been characterized as ideal for a new reactor because of the existing power lines and infrastructure.
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