The NRC said there are no environmental impacts that will prevent issuing the LWA and COLs for construction and operation of the proposed reactors at the site, near Waynesboro in the state of Georgia.
NRC issued a draft SEIS for the LWA and COLs in September 2010 that supplemented its environmental findings from the early site permit issued for the Vogtle site in August 2009.
Southern Nuclear Operating Company submitted its new reactor application for Vogtle on 23 March 2008, and supplemented the application on 2 October 2009.
Southern applied for the licenses to build and operate two AP1000 reactors at the Vogtle site, adjacent to its existing reactors approximately 26 miles southeast of Augusta, Georgia.
The NRC’s final licensing decision will be based on the FSEIS and SER findings, along with a ruling from the five-member Commission that heads the agency.
