NRG Energy has applied for a license to build and operate two General Electric Advanced Boiling Water Reactors (ABWR) at the existing South Texas Nuclear Project site near Bay City, Texas. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted the application for review and public hearing.

On February 24, 2011, 174 organizations worldwide sent a letter to the Prime Minister of Japan and key Cabinet officials warning that funding for the South Texas project from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation would be an extraordinary financial risk. Copy of the sign-on letter to Japanese Prime Minister and Cabinet, February 24, 2011

Press release for sign-on letter to Japanese Prime Minister and Cabinet, February 24, 2011

A coalition of Texas organizations has organized to challenge these reactors. You can find out more about them at www.nukefreetexas.org

You can obtain a copy of NRG’s application on the NRC’s website here.

NIRS statement on the initial NRG filing for South Texas is here.

SEED Coalition, Public Citizen, NIRS, Sierra Club and Beyond Nuclear file petition with NRC to suspend the hearing process for the proposed South Texas reactors, based on NRG’s incomplete license application and NRG’s request that NRC suspend review of much of the application. February 8, 2008

List of Exhibits to Petition to Suspend Hearing Notice
Exhibit 1 Letter from M.A. McBurnett, STPNOC, to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (January 10, 2008)
Exhibit 2 Letter from David B. Matthews, NRC, to Mark McBurnett, STPNOC (January 30, 2008)
Exhibit 3 Letter from David B. Matthews, STPNOC, to Mark McBurnett, NRC
(November 29, 2007)
Exhibit 4 Letter from M.A. McBurnett to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(December 20, 2007)
Exhibit 5 E-mail message from George Wunder to Michael Mariotte
(January 15, 2007)
Exhibit 6 Index of FSAR files found on ADAMS
Exhibit 7 Index of ABWR DCD files found on CD from NRC PDR