Reactor Licensing & Regulation

NRC dockets Duke’s Belews Creek early site permit application

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted Duke Energy’s early site permit application for the Belews Creek Station near Stokes County, N.C.
NRC staff found that the application contains enough information for the agency to formally docket the case and begin…

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