US Approves New Uranium Enrichment Plant...
New York Times MATTHEW L. WALD June 24, 2006 at 08:12 AM
In a milestone for nuclear power, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a license late Friday to a European consortium to build a uranium enrichment plant in New Mexico. It was the first time the N.R.C. had licensed an enrichment plant and only the second time it had used a new licensing system intended to smooth the path for new power reactors, if any are ordered.
Urenco, a consortium owned by British Nuclear Fuels Ltd., the Dutch government and several German utilities, plans to break ground this summer and build a plant nearly identical to one operating in the Netherlands.
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In a milestone for nuclear power, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a license late Friday to a European consortium to build a uranium enrichment plant in New Mexico. It was the first time the N.R.C. had licensed an enrichment plant and only the second time it had used a new licensing system intended to smooth the path for new power reactors, if any are ordered.
Urenco, a consortium owned by British Nuclear Fuels Ltd., the Dutch government and several German utilities, plans to break ground this summer and build a plant nearly identical to one operating in the Netherlands.
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