HOUSTON, - (Reuters) - The board of Tennessee Valley Authority moved a step closer to seeking approval to license two new nuclear reactors in Alabama, the agency said on Thursday.
The board of the largest U.S. public power supplier approved submitting an application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeking a license to build and operate two advanced nuclear units at TVA’s Bellefonte site in Hollywood, Ala.
A decision to build the plant would require further board action following the licensing process, TVA said in a release. Read more
For the first time in three decades, the Tennessee Valley Authority will seek a license from federal regulators to build a new nuclear power plant.
The board for the nation’s largest utility voted today to seek a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to build a two-reactor plant at TVA’s rural Bellefonte site on the Tennessee River near Hollywood in Jackson County.
TVA will apply for the license as a partner in a consortium of power companies and reactor manufacturers called NuStart Energy Development LLC. Read more
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TVA?s board gave its stamp of approval today to begin a process that could lead to the utility building two advanced nuclear reactors in Alabama.
TVA, as part of an alliance of utilities and manufacturers known as NuStart, will apply for a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build and operate a two-unit plant at the Bellefonte site near Hollywood, Ala. The U.S. Department of Energy is splitting the projected $50 million in application costs with NuStart. Read more
The Tennessee Valley Authority announced it seeks license from federal regulators to build a new nuclear power plant at TVA’s rural Bellefonte site on the Tennessee River in northeast Alabama. A consortium was formed which includes the Tennessee Valley Authority, named NuStart Energy Development LLC. The consortium will allegedly split the projected $50 million initial design cost with the U.S. Department of Energy.
Just on Monday this week, two companies, New Jersey-based NRG Energy Inc. and South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company, filed an application to build a nuclear power station site in South Texas. It marked the first application for a new nuclear reactor in the U.S. in nearly 30 years. That project is to construct two nuclear reactors at an existing two-unit plant southwest of Houston, in Bay City. Read more
TVA board votes to pursue license for Bellefonte site
The Tennessee Valley Authority board took a small but critical step Thursday toward expanding its ability to generate nuclear power in North Alabama.
During a meeting in Huntsville, the board formally approved asking the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to grant it a license to build two nuclear reactors at the long-dormant Bellefonte site near Scottsboro.
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TVA will add two more reactors to the nation’s 103 nuclear power plants in the next few years to meet the demand for electric power.
Those reactors will go up at the Bellefonte Plant in Hollywood, Alabama.
WDEF News 12’s Bill Mitchell reports today’s board action has already generated a lot of enhusiasm in Jackson County. Read more
TVA board also decides on increase in rates to meet $400 million shortfall
TVA?s board gave the go-ahead Thursday to begin a process that could lead to the utility building two advanced nuclear reactors in Alabama.
Also Thursday, President and CEO Tom Kilgore said TVA would need to raise electric rates next year to cover most of a projected $400 million cash shortfall in the fiscal 2008 budget, which directors approved at the meeting. Read more
For the first time in 30 years, the Tennessee Valley Authority will pursue a license to build a new nuclear-power plant, it decided yesterday.
With no dissenting votes, the nine-member board gave the go-ahead to apply for an license, putting TVA up front in a predicted national run on Nuclear Regulatory Commission licenses in the next three years.
The license would allow TVA to both build and operate a two-reactor plant at its rural Belle-fonte site on the Tennessee River in northeastern Alabama. Read more
It’s not a done deal yet but TVA’s (Tennessee Valley Authority) board of directors cleared the way Thursday for nuclear power to one day be produced at the utility?s Bellefonte Nuclear Plant near Hollywood.
The nine-member board voted unanimously to allow its CEO to proceed with seeking a Combined Operating License for two proposed Westinghouse AP1000 reactors at Bellefonte. The application, which TVA is completing as part of NuStart Energy, LLC, will be presented to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission sometime in October, according to earlier reports. The reactor has been given design approval by the NRC. Read more
