Nuclear Consortium Seeks DOE Funds for Licensing Effort
The NuStart group, which was formed in March, includes Exelon (Chicago), Southern Co. (Atlanta), Entergy (New Orleans), Constellation Energy (Baltimore), Électricité de France (Paris), the Tennessee Valley Authority (Knoxville), General Electric (Atlanta) and Westinghouse (Pittsburgh). Duke Energy (Charlotte) also has joined the consortium sincen March.
The group will carry out detailed engineering work and decide by 2008 on a proposal to build either a GE European Simplified Boiling Water Reactor or Westinghouse Advanced Passive 1000 reactor at a still-to-be chosen site probably in Illinois or Mississippi.