Bellefonte Units 3 & 4

Bellefonte Units 3 & 4

Licensing Status: Review Suspended 9/29/2010

Site: TVA's Bellefonte site near Scottsboro in Jackson County, Alabama

Reactor: Westinghouse Advanced Passive 1000 (AP1000)
Pressurized Water Reactors (PWRs)

Projected Online: Unit 3 - 2017
Unit 4 – 2019

NRC Application Review Schedule

Key Milestones	Completion Date Actual - A Target - T
Application Tendered	10/30/07 - A
Acceptance Review
Acceptance Review Start	11/07/07 - A
Docketing Decision Letter Issued/Acceptance Review Complete	01/18/08 - A
Review Schedule Established/Schedule Letter Issued to Applicant	02/15/08 - A
Safety Review
Phase 1 - Requests for Additional Information (RAIs) Issued to Applicant	01/16/09 - A
Phase 2 - SER with Open Items issued (without hydrology and Chapter 6)	02/10 - A
Phase 3 - ACRS Review of SER with Open Items Complete (without hydrology)	04/10 - A
Phase 4 - Advanced SER with no Open Items Issued	09/10 - Deferred
Phase 5 - ACRS Review of SER with no Open Items Complete	01/11 - Deferred
Phase 6 - Final SER Issued	03/11 - Deferred
Environmental Review
Phase 1 - Environmental impact statement (EIS) summary report issued	08/15/08 - A
Phase 2 - Draft EIS issued to EPA	03/06/09 - Deferred
Phase 3 - Response to public comments on draft EIS issued	08/10/09 - Deferred
Phase 4 - Final EIS issued to EPA	01/10 - Deferred
Hearing
Commission or ASLB hold mandatory hearing
License
Commission decision on issuance of COL application

The TVA letter dated December 19, 2011 reaffirms that the Bellefonte Units 3 and 4 COLA continues to be deferred indefinitely. No activity has been performed by TVA with regards to Unit 3 and 4 since the last annual update of the Safety Analysis and Departure Reports submitted to NRC on December 22, 2010.

Additional information can be found at http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col/bellefonte.html