CONSULTING

Plant
Grid Connection
Extension
Application
Extension
Granted
Fermi 2 9/86 4/14
LaSalle 1, 2 9/82, 4/84 12/14
Waterford 3 3/85 3/16
River Bend 1 12/85 Expected 1-3/17
Comanche Peak 1, 2 4/90, 4/93 Expected 7-9/18
Perry 1 12/86 Expected 10/19
Clinton 1 4/87 Expected 1-3/21
Sources:
• For grid connection dates:
https://www.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/CountryDetails.aspx?current=US
• For life extension dates: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/fs-reactor-licenserenewal.html,
updated January 2016, accessed 16 June 2015 ; and
http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/applications.html, reviewed/updated
14 April 2015, accessed 16 June 2015.
Notes:
(1) Pairs of reactors marked † have significantly different designs.
(2) The STARS Alliance of nuclear power plant owners has informed the NRC it will submit applications for life
extensions for two unnamed units in 2016 and 2018. The Comanche Peak reactors are the only ones owned by
STARS members that have not already applied for life extension or have had it granted, so it is assumed the
application refers to these two units.
(3) Nine Mile Point 2 applied for and received a license extension before its 20 th birthday.
(4) Kewaunee and Vermont Yankee facilities both applied for Lifetime Extensions which were granted in
February 2011 and June 2011, before Kewaunee was shut down on 7 May 2013 and Vermont Yankee on
29 December 2014.
(5) Crystal River’s Unit 3 was first connected to the grid January 1977. An application for a lifetime extension
was submitted in December 2008, then withdrawn on 6 February 2013. Crystal River-3 was permanently shut
down on 20 February 2013.
Mycle Schneider, Antony Froggatt et al. 222 World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2016