DOE gets applications from 17 companies for $122 billion in nuclear loan guarantees

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of 21 reactors, the department said last week. If all the projects were built, the construction costs would total $188 billion and the plants would add 28,000 MW of generating capacity, DOE said. The department said it has also received applications from two companies for $4 billion in loan guarantees for "front-end" nuclear facility projects, such as uranium enrichment, double the $2 billion available for those projects. Six power companies have announced publicly that they have filed for loan guarantees for potential new reactors: Constellation Energy for an Areva US-evolutionary power reactor at its Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant site in Maryland; Duke Energy for two Westinghouse AP1000s in South Carolina; Exelon Generation for two GE-Hitachi economic simplified boiling water reactors in Texas; Dominion Virginia Power and Old Dominion Electric Cooperative separately applied for their shares of a proposed ESBWR at Dominion's North Anna site in Virginia and PPL for a US-EPR in Pennsylvania.