The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has completed the Final Safety Evaluation Report for a Combined License (COL) for a proposed reactor project, developed by US power utility Dominion on the site of its North Anna nuclear power plant, near Mineral, Virginia (United States). The NRC concluded that there are no safety aspects that would preclude issuing the license for construction and operation of the proposed reactor. Dominion expects to receive a federal permission to proceed with construction by the end of 2017. The third unit, rated 1,500 MW, is not expected to be commissioned before 2028.
Dominion already operates two 948 MW (990 MW gross) PWR units on the site, which were commissioned in 1978 and 1980, respectively. The company originally submitted a combined construction and operating licence (COL) application for the unit in November 2007 but changed several times the favoured technology (first GE-Hitachi's Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR), then Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' Advanced Pressurized Water Reactor (APWR), and finally ESBWR), delaying the approval process.
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