TVA seeks reinstatement of permit for two unfinished nuclear reactors at Bellefonte (AL)

Tennessee Valley Authority officials are looking at the feasibility of completing its two unfinished nuclear reactors in northeast Alabama and has asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to reinstate its construction permits. The utility said Wednesday that it sent a letter Tuesday to the NRC asking to reinstate the permits for Units 1 and 2 at its 1,600-acre Bellefonte site in Jackson County. TVA had stopped construction at the site, and by the mid-1990s had spent $4.6 billion; it gave up its construction permits in 2006. TVA said it would pursue construction permits from the NRC for two modern reactors at...

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