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31 March 2008 -- South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. and Santee Cooper submitted an application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a combined construction and operating license (COL), which, once approved, 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.
Filing the application does not commit the two utilities to build. Development of a COL application for the new nuclear facilities began in early 2006. The NRC will now n an approximate three-to-four-year review process and could issue the combined license in 2011.
Construction could begin shortly thereafter, subject to approval from the South Carolina Public Service Commission, with an in-service date as early as 2016 for the first unit. SCE&G and Santee Cooper estimate that base load generation will be needed for both utilities at this time.
SCE&G is a member of the NuStart Energy Development consortium. Formed in 2004 by 10 U.S. energy companies and two nuclear reactor vendors, NuStart allows member companies and the nuclear vendors to combine their industry experiences and expertise to contribute to the development of reference applications for reactor technologies, including the Westinghouse AP1000. Those applications contain standard licensing, engineering, technical, quality and safety information that future applicants can use to develop their own site-specific applications more efficiently.
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