Nuclear Energy

Nuclear energy provides large-scale, carbon-free electric power generation today and will remain a major contributor to our future power needs. Florida universities have the only nuclear training reactor in the South East U.S. The control system of this training nuclear reactor is being converted from analog to digital to provide the only digital training reactor in the U.S.

Florida Nuclear Power Reactors, January 1, 2008

REACTOR	LOCATION	UTILITY	IN SERVICE	MAX CAPACITY (MW)	SUMMER (MW)	WINTER (MW)
Turkey Point #3	25 miles South Miami	FPL	Dec 1972	760	693	717
Turkey Point #4	25 miles South Miami	FPL	Sep 1973	760	693	717
St. Lucie #1 St	12 miles SE of Ft. Pierce	FPL	May 1976	850	777	790
St. Lucie #2 St	12 miles SE of Ft. Pierce	FPL	Jun 1983	892	777	790

Proposed New Nuclear Power Reactors

REACTOR	LOCATION	UTILITY	PSC NEED DETERMINATION	ESTIMATED IN SERVICE DATE
Levy County*	8 miles N of Crystal River Complex	Progress	Expect to File in March 2008	2016
Turkey Point #6	25 miles South of Miami	FPL	Filed 2007	2018 – 2020
Turkey Point #7	25 miles South of Miami	FPL	Dkt. 070650	2018 – 2020

Source: PSC report Facts and Figures of the FL Utility Industry, March 2008 and “Statistics of Florida Electric Industry”, 2007

*On August 1st, 2013 as part of a comprehensive settlement with a group representing Florida consumers Duke Energy announced termination of the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreement for the Levy nuclear project and consideration of a natural gas-fueled alternative but said it would continue to seek a combined construction and operating license (COL) for the project from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). A final decision will be made in the future based on “energy needs, project costs, carbon regulation, natural gas prices, existing or future legislative provisions for cost recovery, and the requirements of the NRC’s COL” and other factors. About $1 billion had been spent on the preparatory work for the Levy nuclear project.