Quarterly Nuclear Deployment Summary

Moving Toward Deployment

July 2012

Quarterly News

• The final ruling on the design certification for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ APWR has been revised until 2015. Structural changes were made to the design by vendor, which requires a new seismic analysis to be performed. Because of this, the review schedule for the COL applications for Comanche Peak and North Anna has been delayed by approximately 18 months.



• The final ruling on Areva’s EPR design certification has been revised from June 2013 until the end of 2014. The change is to allow Areva to respond to outstanding technical issues and provide additional information related to post-Fukushima requirements.



• DOE released a funding opportunity announcement on March, 22 2012 to support engineering, design certification and licensing of up to two SMR projects for construction and operation at a domestic site. DOE intends to fund the program over a five year period through cost share agreements with private industry partners that want to be the first-movers in the SMR arena.
• The $32 billion merger between Duke Energy and Progress Energy was completed July 3, 2012 resulting in Duke Energy keeping Progress as a wholly owned subsidiary.

Regulatory Status

• Eighteen COL applications have been docketed, ten of which (totaling 16 nuclear reactors) remain under active NRC review. NRC suspended review of five applications due to changes in technology or economic considerations; one additional application was withdrawn and resubmitted as an ESP. The Reference COL (R-COL) application has been submitted for five reactor designs (ESBWR R-COL was transferred to Fermi since North Anna changed to the US-APWR); the 10 subsequent COLs (S-COLs) will incorporate the corresponding R-COL application by reference, noting any site-specific departures. Southern Nuclear’s Vogtle Units 3 and 4 and SCE&G’s VC Summer Units 2 and 3 have received COLs.

UTILITY	SITE/ LOCATION		REACTOR/ NO. UNITS		COLA DATES			REVIEW PHASE IN PROGRESS
					Submitted	Docketed	Issued	Safety4	Environ.5
Southern Nuclear	Vogtle	GA	AP10001	2	3/31/08	5/30/08	2/10/12	Completed	Completed
SCE&G	V.C. Summer	SC	AP1000	2	3/27/08	7/31/08	4/10/12	Completed	Completed
Progress Energy	Levy	FL	AP1000	2	7/307/08	10/6/08	-	Ph. D	Completed
STP Nuclear Operating Co.	South Texas Project	TX	ABWR1	2	9/07	11/29/07	-	Ph. 2	Completed
Luminant (TXU)	Comanche Peak	TX	US-APWR1	2	9/19/08	12/2/08	-	Ph. 2	Completed
UniStar (Constellation)	Calvert Cliffs	MD	US-EPR1	1	3/08	6/3/08	-	Ph. 2	Completed
DTE Energy	Fermi	MI	ESBWR	1	09/18/08	11/25/08	-	Ph. 2	Ph. 3
Duke Energy	William States Lee	SC	AP1000	2	12/13/07	2/25/08	-	Ph. B	Ph. 2
Florida Power and Light	Turkey Point	FL	AP1000	2	6/30/09	9/8/09	-	Ph. A	Ph. 2
PPL (UniStar)	Bell Bend	PA	US-EPR	1	10/10/08	12/19/08	-	Ph. A	Ph. 2
Progress Energy	Shearon Harris	NC	AP1000	2	2/19/08	4/17/08	-	Ph. B	Ph. 2
Dominion Energy	North Anna	VA	US-APWR	1	11/27/07	1/28/08	-	Ph. A	Ph. 2

¹    Reference COL Application (R-COL)
⁴    Safety Review Phases:

R-COL:

Ph 1

Issue RAIs

Ph 2

SER w/ Open Items

Ph 3

ACRS Review

Ph 4

Advanced SER/ No OI

Ph 5

ACRS Review

Ph 6

Final SER

S-COL:

Ph A

Issue RAIs & supplemental RAIs

Ph B

Advanced SER/ No OI

Ph C

ACRS Review

Ph D

Final SER

⁵    Environmental Review Phases:

Ph 1

Environmental Scoping Report

Ph 2

Draft EIS

Ph 3

Public comment

Ph 4

Final EIS

• Small modular reactors are defined as producing less than 300 MWe. Nine SMR vendors have initiated contact with the NRC regarding their reactor designs. Four of these designs are domestic Light Water-based designs. While all four will submit DC applications, B&W and Holtec have plans to submit Construction Permits under 10CFRPart 50 as well.

COMPANY	REACTOR	SIZE (MWE)	APPLICATION	EXPECTED SUBMITTAL DATE
Babcock & Wilcox mPower, Inc.	mPower SMR	180	DC CP	Late 2013 March 2014
Holtec International	SMR-160	160	CP DC	Mid 2014 March 2015
NuScale Power, LLC	NuScale SMR	45	DC	TBD
Westinghouse Electric Co.	W-SMR	225	DC	Mid to late 2013
Department of Energy	NGNP	TBD	COL	FY2013
GEH	PRISM	311	DC	TBD
Gen4 Energy	G4M	25	DC	TBD
PBMR Ltd.	PBMR	165	DC	FY2013
Toshiba	4S	10	TBD	Mid 2012

Nuclear Power Deployment Status

Design Certification (DC) > Two reactor designs that are being considered for future builds are certified and two renewal applications are under NRC review. Early Site Permit (ESP) > Four ESPs issued by NRC. Two ESP applications under NRC review. Two ESP applications anticipated in the near future. New Plant Construction Progress > TVA is proceeding with the completion of the Watts Bar 2 and Bellefonte 1 reactors. Full nuclear construction can now begin for V.C. Summer Units 2 and 3 and Vogtle Units 3 and 4.