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River Bend Station, Unit 3 Application

On January 9, 2009, Entergy informed the NRC that it was considering alternate reactor design technologies and requested the NRC suspend its review effort until further notice. The staff is closing out the technology-independent environmental work and the FEMA technology independent work is continuing.


River Bend Station
Who:   Entergy Operations, Inc. (EOI)
What:   Application for a combined license (COL) for a single Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) designated as River Bend Station, Unit 3
When:   September 25, 2008 (date of application submittal)
Where:   EOI's River Bend Station site near St. Francisville, Louisiana

For additional detail, see the following related pages:

Contacts for the River Bend Station COL Application
Safety Project Manager Chandu Patel
Environmental Project Manager Andy Kugler
Contact a Public Affairs Officer

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