The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved in March the transfer of the operating license of the shut-down Kewaunee nuclear power plant from Dominion Energy to Utah-based EnergySolutions for decontamination and decommissioning. The transfer, which includes the general license for the Wisconsin site's spent fuel storage facility, is contingent upon approval by the Wisconsin Public Service Commission. EnergySolutions entered into an agreement with Dominion in May 2021 to acquire the Kewaunee site for accelerated decommissioning. The transaction would transfer the plant operator, Dominion Energy Kewaunee, to EnergySolutions, and rename it KewauneeSolutions. Ken Robuck, president and chief executive officer of EnergySolutions, commented, "We very much appreciate the NRC's approving our license transfer application by recognizing EnergySolutions' financial and technical qualifications to safely and promptly decommission this facility." The Kewaunee facility, a 574-MWe pressurized water reactor, is EnergySolutions' fourth ongoing nuclear power plant decommissioning project. The others are the San Onofre nuclear plant in California, the Fort Calhoun plant in Nebraska, and Three Mile Island-2 in Pennsylvania. Located in Carl-ton, Wis., Kewaunee began operations in 1974 and permanently shut down in May 2013. Transfer of the fuel to the dry storage facility was completed in 2018.
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