The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has cleared the way for the Office of New Reactors to issue two Combined Licenses (COLs) for Duke Energy’s Levy County nuclear project in Florida. The licenses will authorise the company to build and operate two AP1000 reactors on the site, near Inglis (Levy County), but conditions are imposed, including specific actions associated with the NRC’s post-Fukushima requirements for mitigation strategies and spent fuel pool instrumentation and a pre-startup schedule for implementing post-Fukushima aspects of the new reactors’ emergency preparedness plans and procedures.
In 2008, the Progress Energy Florida (now Duke Energy Florida) had announced plans to construct two 1,100 MW nuclear units in Levy County, Florida, and submitted its COL application to the NRC in July 2008. Delays in the approval process after the Fukushima disaster prompted Duke Energy to terminate the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreement for the project in August 2013 and to shelve the project. The company has not yet indicated if it will go on with the project.
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