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Posted: Tue, 11 Sep 2007
[miningmx.com] -- SOME 30 licence applications are expected to be filed during coming weeks for the building of new nuclear reactors in the United States, Reuters reported.
Companies will file the applications with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission during the coming weeks, marking the start of a renewed reactor building phase after a 30-year hiatus, the newswire reported.
Most of the building interest is centered in Southeast states like Georgia, Virginia, Alabama and Florida, where land is plentiful and a population shift from northern states is driving electricity demand higher, it said.
Dominion Resources, Duke Energy and Southern Co are among the utilities in the process of seeking plant licenses, according to a list provided by the NRC.
The NRC is expected to take about 3 years to process applications, and construction could take 4 years, putting the first new U.S. reactors online sometime around 2015, it said.
To minimise construction delays, the NRC has set up a streamlined process that allows companies to obtain a license to construct and operate a nuclear plant in one fell swoop, it said.
To get the so-called Combined Construction and Operating License, applicants must use pre-approved designs from builders like Westinghouse, which standardise plant construction down to the color of the wallpaper, it said.
That's a vast departure from the nation's 104 operating nuclear plants -- each of which was built from scratch, it said.
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