No safety issues that would prevent license for North Anna reactor
The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has concluded that there are “no safety aspects” that would prevent the issuance of a license for construction and operation of a third reactor at Dominion Virginia Power’s North Anna Power Station, a project opposed by both environmental and consumer groups.
The commission’s final safety evaluation report, released Thursday, was prepared in response to Dominion’s 2007 application for a license for the North Anna 3 reactor in Mineral, which the utility has not yet decided whether it will build and is estimated to cost $19 billion.
The report is a step in the licensing process and will be followed by a mandatory hearing phase later this year prior to a license being issued, the commission said in a news release.
The Virginia State Corporation Commission would also have to approve the reactor project and allow Dominion to recoup the expense from its ratepayers.
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