Toshiba ends effort to renew ABWR design certification in US

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Toshiba Corp. is withdrawing an application to the NRC to renew therndesign certification of its ABWR due to a slow US market for newrnreactors, a Toshiba executive said in an interview July 8.rnIt would cost “$300 million to $500 million,” including anrnapplication fee and labor costs, to apply to the US regulator forrnrenewal of the certification, said Danny Roderick, president and CEO of Toshiba’s energy systems and solutions business. The ABWRrnmarket is “slow,” he added.