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September 7, 2010

Feds: Nuclear power plant should proceed

Associated Press Associated Press

ATLANTA — Staff from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission say there are no major environmental problems that would prevent building two nuclear reactors in eastern Georgia.

A draft report released Tuesday that studied the environmental impacts of expanding Plant Vogtle says federal regulators should allow the project to proceed. It updates an earlier study.

The Atlanta-based Southern Co. and its partners hope to become the first to win permission to build a new nuclear plant since 1978. The reactors would be built at an existing plant near Waynesboro.

Members of the public still have more than two months to comment on the report, which is not final. The NRC is still weighing whether to give the project final approval. That decision is not expected until next year.

 

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