Press Release-16-051, NRC Issues Final Environmental Review for LaSalle Nuclear Plant License Renewal in Illinois

Press Release-16-051: NRC Issues Final Environmental Review for LaSalle Nuclear Plant License Renewal in Illinois

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Issue date:	08/26/2016
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No: 16-051 August 26, 2016 Contact: Scott Burnell, 301-415-8200 NRC Issues Final Environmental Review for LaSalle Nuclear Plant License Renewal in Illinois The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has published its final review detailing the environmental impacts of renewing the operating licenses of the LaSalle Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2. The supplemental environmental impact statement contains the NRC staffs conclusion that the impacts would not preclude renewing the plants licenses for an additional 20 years.

LaSalle County Station, located 11 miles southeast of Ottawa, has two boiling-water reactors.

The operator, Exelon Generation Co. Inc., submitted the renewal application on Dec. 9, 2014.

The NRCs review of the application consists of a technical safety review and the environmental review. The final supplemental impact statement is supplement 57 to NUREG-1437, Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants. It is available on the NRCs website. The NRC published a draft version of the report in February for public comment. The final report includes the staffs responses to the comments.

The LaSalle license renewal application and general information about reactor license renewal are available on the NRC website.