In the Matter of AmerGen Energy Company, LLC; Exelon Generation Company, LLC (Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 1); Order Approving Transfer of License and Conforming Amendment I AmerGen Energy Company, LLC (AmerGen or licensee) is the holder of Facility Operating License No. DPR-50, which authorizes the possession, use, and operation of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 1 (TMI-1). AmerGen is a wholly owned subsidiary of Exelon Generation Company, LLC (EGC). The facility is located at the licensee's site in Dauphin County Pennsylvania.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it has approved transferring the operating license for Three Mile Island Unit 1 from AmerGen Energy Company, LLC, to Exelon Generation Company, LLC.
AmerGen had been a partnership between Exelon and British Energy, the NRC said.
Exelon said in 2003 it was buying out British Energy's share and would become the sole owner of AmerGen, the NRC said.
AmerGen Energy has asked federal regulators for permission to transfer the operating licenses for Three Mile Island and two other nuclear plants to its parent company, Exelon Corp. If approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Exelon would hold the licenses for 10 plants and AmerGen would be dissolved as a subsidiary, said Ralph DeSantis, a spokesman for AmerGen.
A licensing decision regarding the Oyster Creek Generating Station in Lacey Township has been made, but it's not exactly the one people have been anticipating for more than a year.
Exelon Corp. is set to become on Thursday the sole owner and operator of the nation's oldest nuclear plant, which will no longer operate under its subsidiary, AmerGen. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or NRC, approved the license transfer, which was originally filed in June.
"The difference between AmerGen and Exelon, it's been in name only," said Dave Benson, a spokesman for Exelon. "It doesn't affect the license renewal."
The document released by the NRC stated that there will be "no physical changes to the facility, nor changes in officers, personnel or day-to-day operations as a result of the transfer."
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a supplemental safety evaluation report for the license renewal application of the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Toms River, N.J.
The supplement clarifies commitments agreed to by AmerGen Energy Co., the plant's operator, as part of the aging management program for the reactor's drywell shell. It also documents the NRC staff's evaluation of AmerGen's reanalysis of the effects of fatigue on reactor recirculation outlet nozzles. The NRC asked AmerGen to conduct a new analysis when the staff determined that AmerGen's original calculations used only one of six stress components typically used. The staff's evaluation determined that the original analysis was, in fact, considerably more conservative than the confirmatory analysis. Therefore, the original results were acceptable.
The office that AmerGen Energy will use to give out information about a nuclear emergency at Three Mile Island moves to Chester County next week.
The move means local news organizations will have to send reporters to Coatesville, about 65 miles away, if they want face-to-face access to plant experts. AmerGen will close the center in Susquehanna Township off Interstate 81. The location is the same used by AmerGen's parent company, Exelon Corp., to handle emergencies at its Peach Bottom and Limerick plants.
If there's ever another accident at TMI, the main source of information will be in Coatesville -- 55 miles away. That's where local reporters would have to go to speak to officials of the nuclear power plant near Middletown in Dauphin County.
Plant owner AmerGen has merged the Susquehanna Twp. emergency communication center with one based in Coatesville, near the company's regional headquarters. That center serves two other plants.
Amergen Energy Company, LLC, Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 1; Notice of Availability of the Draft Supplement 37 to the Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, and Public Meeting for the License Renewal of Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 1 Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, Commission) has published a draft plant-specific supplement to the Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants (GEIS), NUREG-1437, regarding the renewal of operating license DPR-50 for an additional 20 years of operation for Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 1 (TMI-1). TMI-1 is located in Londonderry Township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on the northern end of Three Mile Island near the eastern shore of the Susquehanna River. Possible alternatives to the proposed action (license renewal) include no action and reasonable alternative energy sources.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff is seeking public comments on its preliminary conclusion that there are no environmental impacts that would preclude renewal of the operating license for the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 1 (TMI-1) in Middletown.
As part of TMI-1's license renewal application, dated Jan. 8, AmerGen Energy Company, LLC, submitted an environmental report. The NRC staff reviewed the report and performed an on-site audit. The staff also considered comments made during the environmental scoping process, including comments offered at public meetings held May 1, 2007. Based on its review, the NRC staff has preliminarily determined that the environmental impacts of the license renewal for TMI-1 are not so great that they preclude license renewal.
The draft supplemental environmental impact statement (EIS) is open for public comment until March 4, 2009, and will be the subject of two public meetings to be held on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009.
An atomic safety panel will take another look at AmerGen Energy Co.'s plans for a 3-D analysis of a corroded radiation barrier at the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in Lacey.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Thursday ordered the dispute over whether the analysis would be adequate back to an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board panel within the agency.
The nuclear plant at Three Mile Island will get closer scrutiny from federal regulators for the next 12 months, following a lapse in security procedures that occurred last summer.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission concluded that the security issue was of moderate to serious significance. The problem was discovered and reported by AmerGen Energy, the operator of the plant,
Briefs have been filed on a 3-D analysis planned for a corroded radiation barrier at the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in Lacey, and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission will now mull them over.
Responding to an order by the NRC's four commissioners, a coalition of six groups challenging a proposed 20-year license renewal for Oyster Creek, plant operator AmerGen Energy Co. and NRC staff filed their briefs on Wednesday.
Groups trying to pave the way for a second AmerenUE nuclear plant in Missouri have a new weapon in Jefferson City - a top lobbyist for environmentalists.
Irl L. Scissors, who previously represented a leading Missouri environmental and conservation alliance, last week announced in an e-mail to leaders of that group he was going to work to help undo the law that prohibits utilities from charging customers for power plants under construction.
Call it the alphabet soup rule. You can tell how important an issue is in the Legislature by how many groups with long acronyms line up behind it or against it.
In the battle over AmerenUE's attempt to change Missouri law so that it can charge consumers higher rates while building its proposed nuclear plant in Callaway County, the first salvo was fired by MEDA, or the Missouri Energy Development Association. The group represents most of the state's utilities, and, of course, it's in favor of the plant.
MEDA's Warren Wood makes the bill sound like it's pro-consumer, pro-environment.
If you follow the Missouri legislature this year, you're going to hear a lot about Senate Bill 228 .
The bill, introduced today by Lowry City Republican Delbert Scott, addresses CWIP - Construction Work in Progress - the law that prevents utilities from charging customers for power not yet being generated.
AmerenUE, the utility serving much of eastern Missouri, says the rule must be rolled back for it to build Callaway 2, a new nuclear reactor in Central Missouri.
Ameren is seeking to remove a barrier in state law that will allow it to increase rates while it is building a $6 billion nuclear power plant. Ameren is telling lawmakers that without a change to the law, it won't get financing.
Speaker of the House Ron Richard addressed the issue in his opening statement. Gov. Jay Nixon has addressed the issue. Senators have spoken to Ameren's lobbyists and know what the issues are. But at the seminar designed to educate senators on the issue, Ameren danced around the issue, as Crowell pointed out.
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