The Tennessee Valley Authority told a federal regulator it won’t renew permits requiring it to maintain the partially completed 1,256-MW Bellefonte nuclear plant site in northeast Alabama—officially ending a private developer's plan to finish work that was started in the 1970s and indicating other redevelopment plans for the 1,600-acre site.
TVA’s mid-September notice to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission asking to cancel extension of the site’s combined construction and operating permit, which was to expire Oct. 1, follows a federal court ruling in late August that the federal power producer could terminate a $111-million site purchase contract signed in 2016 with Nuclear Development LLC to finish the project.