Second Bandwagon Market Nuclear Proposals
Proceeded:
None
Changed/Cancelled:
1. Crystal River (expansion, two units); alternate site in Levy County, Florida selected.
2. Cherokee County (new units on site of canceled nuke); renamed Lee Nuclear Station.
3. Calvert Cliffs, Nine Mile Point, Savannah River Site, and River Bend were rejected in favor of Bellafonte and Grand Gulf as NuStart sites.
Pending/Proposed:
1. North Anna
Expansion; a third unit (ESBWR, was ACR-700).
2. Grand Gulf
Expansion; a second unit (ESBWR).
3. Clinton
Expansion; a second unit (type undecided).
4. River Bend
Expansion; a second unit (ESBWR).
5. Vogtle
Expansion; third and fourth units (AP-1000s).
6. Harris
Expansion; second and third units (AP-1000s).
7. Summer
Expansion; second and third units (AP-1000s).
8. Calvert Cliffs or Nine Mile Point
Expansion; potential for five units (EPRs).
9. South Texas Project
Expansion; third and fourth units (ABWRs).
10. Bellafonte Nuclear Power Plant
New nuke (two AP-1000s) on the site of a cancelled nuke.
11. Lee Nuclear Station (Cherokee County, South Carolina)
New nuke (two AP-1000s) on the site of a cancelled nuke.
12. Davie County, North Carolina
New nuke on the site of a cancelled nuke; little public information.
13. Oconee County, North Carolina
New nuke on new site near existing nuke; little public information.
14. Levy County, Florida
New nuke on new site; little public information.
15. Idaho National Laboratory (Next-Generation Nuclear Plant)
Reactor to be built by the Department of Energy under the Energy Policy Act of 2005. As far as is known, it will be a single-unit hydrogen-cogenerating HTGR.
16. Bruneau, Idaho
Single-unit ESBWR proposed by an Idaho small business that seeks to become the first American nuclear generating company.
17. Amarillo
Two ABWRs proposed by a Texas independent power producer.
18. Fresno
Two EPRs proposed by a business/farming consortium.
19. Texas TBA (TXU)
Two to five units; no other public information.
20. Texas TBA (Exelon)
No further information.
21. Florida TBA (FPL)
No further information.
22. Sizewell C
A proposal for an AP-1000, EPR, or ACR-1000 in the UK (next to Sizewell B, Britain's only light-water nuclear power plant, and Sizewell A, two decommissioned MAGNOX reactors).