Florida Utility's Nuclear Plan Passes Important Milestone

摘要

With the unanimous approval of the state's Siting Board, a project toadd two nuclear reactors to a South Florida powerplant has passed a major milestone. Since the project was proposed in 2006, it has survived the 2007-08 financial crisis, the flight from nukes after the 2011 Fukushima disaster, intense environmental scrutiny, local resistance to transmission lines and an eight-week administrative-law court hearing focused largely on the siting of the lines. Ahead lies the arduous effort to get a combined construction and operating license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.