Enercon selected to provide NuStart license application services

ByRod Adams

NuStart Energy, the consortium that includes both plant suppliers and utility companies, has awarded a contract to Enercon Services, Inc. to lead a team of specialist firms in a project to produce Combined Construction and Operating Licenses (COL) for two separate projects.

One will be a two reactor Westinghouse designed AP-1000 project at the Tennessee Valley owned Bellefonte site in northern Alabama and one will be for an GE designed ESBWR at the Entergy owned Grand Gulf site in Mississippi.

There is a press release available on the topic at NuStart Energy Picks Enercon for New Nuclear Power Plant License Applications for a GE ESBWR and a Westinghouse AP 1000

Rod Adams
Rod Adams

Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.

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