NRC seeks comment on Limerick license renewal document

May 8, 2013 Wayne Barber Generation

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is seeking comment on the draft environmental impact statement (EIS) connected with a 20-year license renewal request for Exelon’s (NYSE:EXC) Limerick Units 1 and 2 in Pennsylvania.

Limerick is a station with two boiling water reactors (BWRs) with a combined generating capacity of more than 2,200 MW. Limerick Units 1 and 2 came online in 1986 and 1990 respectively. The station is located in Pottstown, Pa.

Limerick is built on a 600-acre site and draws its cooling water from the Schuylkill River. Units 1 and 2 received their operating licenses from the NRC in 1984 and 1989, respectively, according to an Exelon website.

Comments are due by June 27, according to a May 7 notice in the Federal Register.

Two public meetings will be held in Pottstown on May 23 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. NRC has published a draft plant-specific supplement 49 to the Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants (GEIS), NUREG–1437.

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