The three stations are the single-unit Davis-Besse and single-unit Perry in Ohio, and the two-unit Beaver Valley in Pennsylvania.
Vistra, which owns the two-unit Comanche Peak nuclear power station in Texas through its Luminant subsidiary, said the new plants would add about 4,000 MW of capacity and accelerate the growth of its zero-carbon operations.
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