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Filing near for reactor in Louisa (VA North Anna)
Richmond Times Dispatch ^ | 10/26/07 | GREG EDWARDS

Posted on 10/26/2007 11:24:27 AM PDT by Canali

MINERAL -- Federal officials are urging public involvement once Dominion Virginia Power applies for a license to build a third reactor at its North Anna Power Station in Louisa County.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission held a meeting in Mineral on Wednesday night to explain how it will review the application, expected next month.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: amoeba; dominionvirginia; nuclear; reactor
Expansion at North Anna hasn't been making to many waves as far as I can tell. Constuction is a long long way off, but this gets the ball rolling.
1 posted on 10/26/2007 11:24:28 AM PDT by Canali
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To: Canali

Originally the site was to have 3 reactors, the bowl site was prepared back in the initial stages of the current reactors construction.


2 posted on 10/26/2007 11:32:05 AM PDT by cav68
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To: Canali

If they can control the EPA, they’ll get it done. If you turn over a rock, the EPA will take two years to approve it. At times, I think the EPA has hidden agendas.


3 posted on 10/26/2007 11:41:16 AM PDT by RC2
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To: Canali

Nuclear really deserves a Manhattan Project effort.


4 posted on 10/26/2007 11:43:12 AM PDT by angkor ("Hyeah right. The man who singlehandedly killed ManBearPig is a loser." Al Gore, South Park 10.06)
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To: cav68

No, it was supposed to have four reactors - two by Westinghouse and two by Babcock & Wilcox. The last two were cancelled back around Thanksgiving, 1982, resulting ultimately in my departure from B&W. The site does have two Westinghouse reactors.


5 posted on 10/26/2007 12:44:43 PM PDT by bagman
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To: Canali

Lucky they’re not in Kansas. Kansas would probably reject the application because the plant produces Greenhouse Gases. All that respiration by the plant operators, you know...


6 posted on 10/26/2007 1:46:05 PM PDT by gridlock (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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More reactors, warmer water, better fishing in the winter!


7 posted on 10/26/2007 8:45:13 PM PDT by relee ('Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away)
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It appears that the ESP was granted: Dominion granted ESP for North Anna site.
8 posted on 01/11/2008 7:15:38 AM PST by snowsislander
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