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Nuclear Power Deployment Scorecard
Powering Future Decades
January 18, 2008

What's New

TVA (NuStart) COL application docketed for NRC review on January 18th, 2008.
Westinghouse AP1000 Design Certification amendment docketed January 18th.
Mitsubishi submitted a Design Certification application for its US-APWR design on January 2nd.
NRC announced a hearing for the South Texas Project COLA environmental impact statement in the December 21st Federal Register; time and place not yet decided.
DOE posted on-line instructions December 21st for companies building new plants to request a Conditional Agreement.
PPL signed an agreement with UniStar on December 19th to jointly submit the previously announced COL at PPL's Susquehanna facility.
On December 18th, Exelon selected the Victoria County, TX site for its previously announced COL application.
On December 17th, Alstom announced a $200 million investment in a U.S. facility to manufacture nuclear turbine-generators.
The omnibus appropriations bill signed December 27th allocated $18.5 billion in loan guarantees for new nuclear plants.

Quick Statistics

Early Site Permits issued—3
Permits under review—1
Total COL applications submitted—4
Certified reactor designs—2
Reactor designs under review—3
Expected license applications—21
Expected number of reactors—32
Nuclear plant locations—20
Companies applying for COL—18

Number of Planned Reactors - 32

Number of Planned Reactors-- AP 1000:14, ESBWR:5, USEPR:7, ABWR:2, USAPWR:2, Unspecified:2

Vendor Technology Under Consideration

General Electric

Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR), 1,356 MWe (certified 10CFR52 App A)
Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR), 1,560 MWe

Westinghouse

Advanced Passive Pressurized Water Reactor (AP1000), Twin units 1,117 MWe each (certified 10CFR52 App D)

AREVA

United States Evolutionary Pressurized Water Reactor (US EPR), 1,600 MWe

Mitsubishi Heavy Industry

United States Advanced Pressurized Water Reactor (US APWR), 1,700 MWe

Status of License Applications

Status of License Applications-- Docketed:2, Under Review for Docketing:2, Expected in 2008:16, Expected in 2009:1

Announced Nuclear Locations

Bellefonte (AL)—Tennessee Valley Authority
Boise (ID)—Mid American
Bruneau (ID)—Alternate Holding Energy
Callaway (MO)—AmerenUE
Calvert Cliffs (MD)—UniStar
Clinton (IL)—Exelon
Comanche Peak (TX)—Luminant (formerly TXU)
Fermi (MI)—DTE Energy
Grand Gulf (MS)—Entergy
Harris (NC)—Progress Energy
Levy County (FL)—Progress Energy
Nine Mile Point (NY)—UniStar
North Anna (VA)—Dominion Energy
River Bend (LA)—Entergy
South Texas (TX)—STP Nuclear
Summer (SC)—SCE&G
Susquehanna (PA)—PPL
Turkey Point (FL)—Florida Power & Light
Vogtle (GA)—Southern Nuclear
William Lee (SC)—Duke Energy

Nuclear Scorecard

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Nuclear Power Deployment Scorecard

	Early Site Permit (ESP) >
		Three site permits issued by NRC (Clinton, Grand Gulf, North Anna) One site permit application under NRC review (Vogtle) Submission of three other ESP applications expected in 2010-2012
	Combined Construction and Operating License (COL) >
		License Applications Submitted to NRC Two COL applications docketed for review by NRC (STP and TVA-NuStart) Two COL applications submitted to NRC (Dominion and Duke) Submission of 17 additional COLs expected in 2008-2009
		Licenses to Build Issued by NRC NRC anticipates issuing COL 42 months after docketing
	Reactor Design Certification (DC) >
		Two advanced reactor designs certified by NRC (ABWR and AP 1000) One reactor design undergoing NRC certification review (ESBWR) Two DC applications submitted to NRC, but not yet docketed (APWR and EPR)
	New Nuclear Plant Orders >
		Long-Lead Equipment Orders Six utilities have ordered large long-lead nuclear component forgings with three reactor vendors No other long-lead equipment (e.g., heat exchanger and generator) have been ordered to date Japan Steel Works is only manufacturer of ultra-large forgings worldwide-capacity limited
		Engineering, Procurement and Construction Contracts (EPC) No plant contracts signed to date; negotiations on-going among vendors and several utilities Plant engineering in progress; completion required to start construction
	New Nuclear Plant Construction, Operation & Deferral >
		No utility has committed to constructing a new plant
	Federal Financial Incentives >
		Standby Support (Risk Insurance) Final 10 CFR Part 950 Rule issued August 11, 2006 Standard Conditional Agreement issued September 2007 DOE released on-line instructions to request a Conditional Agreement in December 2007
		Production Tax Credits Internal Revenue Bulletin 2006-18 published May 2006 Publish regulation for Production Tax Credit in FY08
		Energy Facility Loan Guarantee Final 10 CFR Part 609 Rule published October 23, 2007 Solicitation for small scale loan guarantees closed December 2006 No solicitation issued for nuclear plant loan guarantees $18.5 billion approved for loan guarantees for nuclear plants December 2007

Scorecard Legend

	Implementation proceeding according to plan and schedule
	Progress being made; however, issues or uncertainties exist that could impede progress
	Unlikely to realize objectives absent significant management attention
	No dates or end state established
	Indicates change in status or progress since last evaluation
	Regulatory Demonstration completed. No further government assistance is warranted.

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