NRC ANNOUNCES OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN HEARING ON 

NEW REACTOR APPLICATION FOR LEE SITE 

 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission today announced the opportunity to participate in 

the hearing on a Combined License (COL) application for two new reactors at the Lee site near 

Gaffney, S.C. 

Duke Energy submitted the COL application and associated information Dec. 12, 2007. 

The application (minus proprietary or security-related details), is available on the NRC Web site 

at: http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-licensing/col/lee.html . Duke seeks approval to build and 

operate two AP1000 reactors at the site, approximately 35 miles southwest of Charlotte, N.C. 

The AP1000 is a Westinghouse 1,100 megawatt electric pressurized-water reactor the NRC 

certified as a standardized design in 2006. The NRC accepted Westinghouse’s application to 

amend the AP1000 design in January. 

 On Feb. 25, the NRC staff determined that the Lee 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 

numbers established for this application are 52-018 and 52-019. 

 The NRC staff provided background information on the licensing and hearing process 

during an August 2007 public meeting held in Gaffney. 

 The NRC has published in the Federal Register a notice of opportunity to intervene. The 

deadline for petitioning to intervene is June 27. 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 criteria set out in the NRC’s regulations. 

 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 Lee, the NRC is currently reviewing COL applications for the South Texas 

Project site in Texas, the North Anna site in Virginia, the Bellefonte site in Alabama, the Calvert 

Cliffs site in Maryland, the Harris site in North Carolina and the Grand Gulf site in Mississippi. 

An acceptance review is also underway on a COL application for the Vogtle site in Georgia, and 

the staff will soon start an acceptance review for a COL application for the Summer site in South 

Carolina. Detailed 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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