NRC Accepts Application for New Reactor at Callaway
December 16, 2008
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION DOCUMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted for review the
combined license (COL) application for an Evolutionary Power Reactor
(EPR) at the Callaway site near Fulton, Mo.
Ameren submitted the application and associated information July
28. The application, minus proprietary or security-related details,
is available on the NRC Web site at:
http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col/callaway.html.
Ameren is seeking approval to build and operate an EPR at the
site, approximately 10 miles southeast of Fulton. 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 Callaway application does not indicate whether the
Commission will approve or reject the request. The NRC has
established docket number 52-037 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.
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION DOCUMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted for review the
combined license (COL) application for an Evolutionary Power Reactor
(EPR) at the Callaway site near Fulton, Mo.
Ameren submitted the application and associated information July
28. The application, minus proprietary or security-related details,
is available on the NRC Web site at:
http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col/callaway.html.
Ameren is seeking approval to build and operate an EPR at the
site, approximately 10 miles southeast of Fulton. 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 Callaway application does not indicate whether the
Commission will approve or reject the request. The NRC has
established docket number 52-037 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.