Nuclear Energy

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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.