Exelon opts for resurgent ABWR
A GE Hitachi reactor should be built by Exelon at Victoria after all. The utility dropped the ESBWR design in November last year, but will now use the ABWR design instead…
The decision will be welcome at GE Hitachi, two of whose 1550 MWe ESBWR reactors were originally pencilled in for Exelon’s Victoria site in north Texas. Despite submitting a combined construction and operating licence application in September 2008, Exelon later decided two months later that ESBWR was not near enough to deployment to qualify for loan guarantees from the US government…
Exelon must now revise the reactor-specific parts of its COL documentation. A final decision whether of not to build is expected next year.
