NRG, a merchant, is first in three decades to file to build nuclear, but utilities lining up

摘要

NRG Energy last week became the first company in almost 30 years to submit to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission an application for a "construction permit-operating license" for new nuclear power units.rnThe September 24 filing of the COL application by the merchant generator, whose shareholders will bear the financial risk of the project, covers two advanced boiling water reactor units with a combined capacity of 2,700 MW. They could cost as much as $6 billion to build at a site in south Texas where two other units already operate.