STATUS: In progress with opposition
OPPOSITION: N.C. Waste Awareness and Reduction Network (N.C. AWARN)
PROSPECTS: Indeterminate
BACKGROUND: This plant generates electricity for 1.5 million Progress Energy customers in the Carolinas. On February 19, 2008 Progress filed an application with the NRC for a Combined Construction and Operating License (COL). It seeks to build two 1,100 MWe Westinghouse AP1000 pressurized water reactors. Although the NRC has already certified the AP1000 design, the application review is expected to take about 36 months. The new reactors would not be operational before 2018. Progress Energy's application to license two additional reactors at the Shearon Harris site is pending and facing legal opposition from nuclear opponents.
N.C. AWARN is fighting the application, claiming that Shearon Harris lacks fire safety standards, lacks adequate emergency evacuation plan, is vulnerable to air attack by terrorists, and that the reactor designs are not aren't completed.
SOURCES: U.S. NRC
http: //www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col/harris.html
World Nuclear News
http: //www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN/Submission_for_new_nuclear_at_Harris_190208.html?terms=harris
Trading Markets.com
http: //www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/stock%20news/2090526/
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