Nuclear Regulatory Commission Completes Environmental Review for Texas Reactor Project
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission finished its environmental assessment for a proposed four-reactor project at Dow's Seadrift, Texas site. The review resulted in a Finding of No Significant Impact and was completed ahead of schedule.
prnewswire.comThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission completed its environmental assessment for the proposed Long Mott Generating Station, a four-reactor Xe-100 project at Dow's Seadrift, Texas site. A Finding of No Significant Impact was issued after the review finished in under a year.
The project is backed by the Department of Energy's Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program. The reactors are intended to supply power to Dow's chemical manufacturing operations, with potential future use for high-temperature process steam. If completed, the facility would be among the first grid-scale advanced reactors dedicated to serving an industrial site in North America.
February, the NRC granted intervention to the San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper on a contention regarding financial qualifications for Long Mott Energy, the Dow subsidiary developing the project. Other contentions raised by Waterkeeper concerning reactor design and environmental impacts were rejected by the NRC board. The financial qualifications issue will now proceed to a hearing.
