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Peach Bottom / NRC Approves Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement For Licence Extension

By David Dalton
28 January 2020

NRC Approves Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement For Licence Extension
The Peach Bottom nuclear power station in Pennsylvania. Photo courtesy Exelon.
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved a final supplemental environmental impact statement as part of the process of approving Exelon Generation Company's application to operate Units 2 and 3 at the Peach Bottom nuclear power station in Pennsylvania for an additional 20 years to a maximum of 80 years.The final supplemental environmental impact statement concludes that the potential environmental impacts of a licence renewal are not enough to prevent licence renewal.Exelon submitted the Peach Bottom licence renewal application in July 2018.

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