Nuke Free Texas

Proposed Nukes

Download the Nuclear Power Plants Proposed For Texas list in pdf format

Exelon - Victoria:

Exelon Nuclear Victoria Texas Plant Forum:

Exelon still looking for leak's cause
Chicago Sun-Times News 6/09/09
What are the Health Risks of Living Near a Nuclear Power Plant? 10/2008
Exelon's History of Radiation Leaks and Hiding it from the Public 10/2008
Exelon's Nuclear Reactors... What is Proposed - Derived from Combined Operating Licence Application 10/2008

Luminant/ Comanche Peak 3 & 4:

Luminant (formerly TXU) proposes two more nuclear plants at Comanche Peak in North Texas.

The proposed US APWR reactor design has not been approved in the United States or Japan, and has never been built before, anywhere in the world, but Luminant wants to build two of them. Review of the design is set to occur at the same time as the construction and operating license are being considered. Three processes are being combined into one. Does this sound like fast-tracking of nuclear licensing to you?

Learn more about Comanche Peak Nuclear Reactors...

South Texas Project Units 3 and 4:

NRC Image of South Texas Project, Units 1 & 2.

South Texas Project License Review Schedule
New Plant Working Group - Summary of Public Meeting on Combined Operating License Applications
60-Day Clock For Nuclear Opponents Starts Ticking: Opposition to Expansion of South Texas Project in Place Press Release Feb. 20, 2009
South Texas Nuclear Project-The Record
Transcript from the public scoping meeting day session 2/05/08
Transcript from the public scoping meeting evening session 2/05/08
South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company Application for the South Texas Project Units 3 and 4; Notice of Order, Hearing, and Opportunity To Petition for Leave To Intervene Federal Register Notice
South Texas Nuclear Project-The Record
South Texas Project (STP) Nuclear Reactors... What is Proposed Derived from Combined Operating License Application
Nuclear Reactor Cost Estimates for South Texas Plants
Report: Assessing Nuclear Plant Capital Costs for the Two Proposed NRG Reactors at the South Texas Project Site by Arjun Makhijani, Ph.D. - March 24, 2008
- Read our press release 3/24/08
- Download report
Petition to suspend the hearing notice for the South Texas Project Units 3 and 4 - 2/08/08
Notice of Public Meeting to Discuss Environmental Scoping Process for the South Texas Project Site, Units 3 & 4 Combined Licenses (TAC No. RA2764). 2/5/2008
South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company, South Texas Project Site, Units 3 & 4: Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement and Conduct Scoping

New Applications:

New Reactor Licensing Applications (Site and Technology Seclected) U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 9/13/07
NRG Nuclear application on the federal register - December 2007

Resources:

"Nuclear Power in a Warming World" Union of Concerned Scientists' Report Dec. 2007
"This Week in Nuclear" Podcast Episode #49
Walking a Nuclear Tightrope: Unlearned Lessons of Year-plus Reactor Outages Union of Concerned Scientists October 2006.
Improving Government Oversight; Unlearned Lessons from Year-plus Reactor Outages Union of Concerned Scientists October 2006.
NRC Oversight fo Nuclear Power Plant Safety Has Improved, but Refinements Are Needed GAO Report to Congress Sept. 2006.
A Dozen Issues to Raise, and How to comment

Leaks and accidents happen at nuclear plants. Even at the South Texas Project


Evidence of very small leakage found in routine inspection at South Texas Project Unit 1. April, 2003.


Cooling Tower Collapse at the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. August, 2007.