The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved the indirect transfer of the licenses for 23 operating and five decommissioning reactors, as well as their associated independent spent fuel storage installations, from Exelon Corporation to a new company as part of a corporate restructuring, the agency announced on November 17. The new company, which has been given the placeholder name HoldCo, will wholly own Exelon Generation, or SpinCo, as it will be temporarily dubbed, and its subsidiaries. SpinCo will continue to own and operate the reactors as the restructuring moves forward. According to Exelon, SpinCo will ultimately be renamed Constellation. Exelon announced in February that it had begun the effort to separate its utility businesses from its competitive power generation and customer-facing energy businesses, adding that it hoped to complete the separation in the first quarter of 2022.
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