Press Release-08-224, NRC Accepts Application for New Reactor at Nine Mile Point

Press Release-08-224: NRC Accepts Application for New Reactor at Nine Mile Point

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Site:	Nine Mile Point
Issue date:	12/15/2008
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NRC NEWS U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Office of Public Affairs Telephone: 301/415-8200 Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 E-mail: opa@nrc.gov Site: http://www.nrc.gov No.08-224 December 15, 2008 NRC ACCEPTS APPLICATION FOR NEW REACTOR AT NINE MILE POINT The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted for review the Combined License application for an Evolutionary Power Reactor (EPR) at the Nine Mile Point site near Oswego, N.Y.

Unistar submitted the application and associated information Sept. 30. The application, minus proprietary or security-related details, is available on the NRC Web site at:

http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col/nine-mile-point.html.

Unistar is seeking approval to build and operate an EPR at the site, approximately six miles northeast of Oswego. The EPR is an Areva-designed pressurized water reactor, with a nominal output of approximately 1,600 megawatts of electricity. Areva filed its application Dec. 11, 2007, to certify the design. A version of the EPR is currently under construction at the Olkiluoto site in Finland and at Flamanville, France. The EPR application, minus proprietary or security-related details, is available on the NRC Web site at: http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/design-cert/epr.html.

Docketing the Nine Mile Point application does not indicate whether the Commission will approve or reject the request. The NRC has established docket number 52-038 for this application, and the agency will publish soon a notice of opportunity to intervene in the required adjudicatory hearing. Petitions to intervene in a hearing may be filed within 60 days of the notice, by anyone whose interest may be affected by the proposed license and who wishes to participate as a party in the proceeding. More information on the hearing process is available on the NRC Web site at: http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/adjudicatory/hearing.html.

Information about the new reactor licensing process is available on the NRC Web site at:

http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors.html.

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