Thursday 4 August 2011

Nuclear Power Plants of USA:
The map Nuclear Power Plants of USA shows the location of each commercial power reactor that is apear  under construction, or ordered as of February  2011 this year. Information includes each reactor's generating capacity ( MWe) design type, date of commercial operation (actual) and reactor supplier.The red stars indicate the locations of 12 potential new reactor projects in which four have signed engineering, procurement, and construction contracts ,blue stars indicate the locations of five new reactor projects that have been suspended.
The U.S Nuclear Regulatory Commission has announced it will launch a comprehensive  safety review of the 104 nuclear power reactors across the United States.
  For all 17 projects, applications for combined construction and operating licenses have been submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’ boxed information for each project provides the plant name, the city and state of the site, the reactor model and  owner.



US nuclear power reactors under construction
Site
Technology
MWe gross
Proponent/utility
COL lodgement date
Loan guarantee;
start operation
Watts Bar 2 , TN
Westinghouse PWR
1218 (1177 net)
Tennessee Valley Authority
No COL 
Start Oct 2012, on line 2013
Vogtle GA
AP1000 x 2
2400
Southern Nuclear Operating Company
24/7/08
granted loan guarantee;
2016, 17
Virgil C. Summer, SC
AP1000 x 2
2400
South Carolina Electric & Gas
31/3/08
short list loan guarantee;
2016, 19
Levy County, FL
AP1000 x 2
2400
Progress Energy
30/7/08
2021-22
Subtotal 'planned': 6 units (7200 MWe gross) 
Comanche Peak, TX
US-APWR x2
3400
Luminant
(merchant plant)
19/9/08
2019, 2020
South Texas Project TX
ABWR x 2
2712
Toshiba, CPS Energy/STP Nuclear (merchant plant)
20/9/07
short list loan guarantee;
2016, 17
Calvert Cliffs MD
US EPR
1710
UniStar Nuclear
(merchant plant)
7/07 and 13/3/08
refused an offered loan guarantee, needs US equity;
2017
Bellefonte 1 or 3 AL
B&W PWR
or
AP1000
1263
or
1200
Tennessee Valley Authority
30/10/07 for unit 3 (and unit 4)  but COL review suspended

North Anna VA
US-APWR 
1700
Dominion
20/11/07

 
William States Lee III, SC
AP1000 x 2
2400
Duke Energy
13/12/07
2021, 2023
Shearon Harris, NC
AP1000 x 2
2400
Progress Energy
19/2/08
2020
Grand Gulf, MS
ESBWR
1600
Entergy
27/2/08 but COL application review suspended for some years

Fermi, MI
ESBWR
1600
Detroit Edison
18/9/08 but no decision to proceed

River Bend, LA
ESBWR
1600
Entergy
25/9/08 but COL application review suspended

Nine Mile Point, NY
US EPR
1710
UniStar Nuclear
(merchant plant)
30/9/08 but COL application review partially suspended

Bell Bend (near Susquehanna), PA
US EPR
1710
PPL merchant plant
10/10/08
2018-20
Turkey Point, FL
AP1000 x 2
2400
Florida Power & Light
30/6/09
2022, 2023
Hammett, ID
AP1000, US-APWR or APR-1400
1200, 1700 or 1455
Alternate Energy Holdings Inc. (merchant plant)
Expected 2011-12

Amarillo, TX
US EPR x 2
3420
Amarillo Power (merchant plant)
Expected 2010

Blue Castle, UT
? x 2
2400-3420
Transition Power Development


Piketon (DOE site leased to USEC), OH
US EPR
1710
Duke Energy
ESP expected late 2013

Salem/Hope Creek, NJ
To be decided
in 2012
Perhaps 1200
PSEG
ESP only
On line 2021
 Fresno, Ca
US EPR
1710
Fresno Nuclear Energy Group


 Clinch River, TN
mPower x 2
250
TVA
Expected 2012

Subtotal 'proposed': 28 units (ca. 38,600 MWe gross), 14 COL applications to March 2010, including 3 suspended 
Victoria County  TX
2, unspecified
perhaps. 2400
Exelon
(merchant plant)
03/9/08 but withdrawn,
Now ESP only, 25/3/10
12/07 MHI
Callaway MO
US EPR
1710
AmerenUE
24/7/08. Now suspended, project cancelled
Areva had ordered forgings


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