NRC ANNOUNCES OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN HEARING ON 

NEW REACTOR APPLICATION FOR NORTH ANNA SITE 

 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission today announced the opportunity to participate in 

the hearing on a Combined License (COL) application for a new reactor at the North Anna site in 

central Virginia. 

Dominion Virginia Power submitted its application Nov. 27, 2007, seeking a license to 

build and operate an Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) at the site, 

approximately 40 miles northwest of Richmond. The application (minus proprietary or securityrelated details), is available on the NRC Web site at: http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/newlicensing/col/north-anna.html . 

 On Jan. 28, the NRC staff determined that the application contains sufficient information 

for the agency to formally “docket,” or file, the application and begin its technical review. 

Docketing the application does not preclude additional requests for information as the review 

proceeds; nor does it indicate whether the Commission will issue the license. The docket number 

established for this application is 52-017. 

 The NRC will shortly issue in the Federal Register a notice of opportunity to intervene in 

the proceeding on the application. The deadline for petitioning to intervene is 60 days after 

publication of the notice. Petitions may be filed by anyone whose interest may be affected by the 

proposed license, who wishes to participate as a party in the proceeding, and who meets the 

criteria set out in the NRC’s regulations (10 CFR Part 2). NRC staff provided background 

information regarding the hearing process during an October 2007 public meeting held in 

Mineral, Va. 

 A petition to intervene must be electronically submitted in a timely manner to the NRC's 

Electronic Information Exchange (EIE) system. The petition to intervene must be filed in 

accordance with the NRC's E-Filing Rule that appeared in the Federal Register on 

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 In addition to the North Anna application, the NRC is currently reviewing COL 

applications for the South Texas Project site in Texas, the Bellefonte site in Alabama, the Lee 

site in South Carolina, and a partial application for the Calvert Cliffs site in Maryland. The NRC 

is currently conducting an acceptance review for a COL application for the Shearon Harris site in 

North Carolina. Information about the new reactor licensing process can be found on the NRC 

Web site at: http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactor-licensing.html .

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