Early Site Permit Issued for Nuclear Plant in Mississippi
Environment News Service, March, 2007
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) — --> The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NRC, today unanimously authorized its Office of New Reactors to issue an Early Site Permit to System Energy Resources Inc. for the Grand Gulf site near Port Gibson, Mississippi.
System Energy Resources is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Entergy Corporation, the second-largest nuclear generator in the United States.
The staff has 10 business days to carry out the commission's directions and issue the permit, the second Early Site Permit, ESP, the commission has approved.
Earlier this month, the NRC approved the first ESP for the Exelon Generation Company's Clinton site, in central Illinois.
Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said, "We're seeing a lot of momentum in the nuclear...
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