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12 February 2008 -- UniStar Nuclear Energy, a joint venture between Constellation Energy and the EDF Group, has told the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission it plans to submit a Combined License (COL) application in late 2008 for a potential advanced design, 1,600 MW nuclear reactor at Constellation's Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station in upstate New York.
The site was named for a potential U.S. Evolutionary Power Reactor (U.S. EPR). UniStar noted that it has yet to make a final decision to build a new reactor at Nine Mile Point.
UniStar submitted a partial COL application for its so-called "reference" plant, a proposed third reactor adjacent to Constellation Energy's Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant in southern Maryland, in July 2007. The NRC accepted the submittal for detailed review on January 25. UniStar plans to submit the remaining portions of the COL application next month.
In December 2007, UniStar's partner AREVA, submitted the design certification application for the U.S. EPR to the NRC. Late last year, UniStar announced an agreement with turbine-generator supplier Alstom to secure the turbine-generator systems for the first four U.S. EPRs.
The partners said they are working to be in a position to make a decision to break ground for a new reactor at the Calvert Cliffs site at the end of 2008, depending upon the outcome of several issues, including economics and federal loan guarantees
In addition to advanced design reactors in New York and Maryland, UniStar is also working with PPL and AmerenUE, as well AEHI and Amarillo Power, to develop potential U.S. EPRs in Pennsylvania, Missouri, Idaho and Texas.
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