NRC Issues Final Environmental Review on License Renewal for Firmi 2 Nuclear Power Plant

No: 16-

055

September 16, 2016

Contact: Scott Burnell

, 301-

415-

8200

NRC Issues Final Environmental Review on License Renewal for

Firmi 2 Nuclear Power Plant

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has published its final review detailing the environmental

impacts of renewing the operating license of the Fermi 2 nuclear power plant in Michigan. The

supplemental environmental impact statement contains the NRC staff’s conclusion that the impacts

would not preclude renewing the plant’s license for an additional 20 years.

Fermi 2 is a boiling

-water reactor located in Newport, Mich., about 25 miles northeast of

Toledo, Ohio. It is currently licensed to operate through March 20, 2025. The operator,

DTE Electric Co., submitted the renewal application April 30, 2014.

The report is Supplement 56 to NUREG

-1437, Generic Environmental Impact Statement for

License Renewal of Nuclear Plants. It is now available on the NRC website

. The NRC published a draft

version of the report in November 2015 for public comment. The final report includes the staff’s

responses to the comments

.

The Fermi 2 license renewal application

and general information about re

actor license renewal

are available on the NRC website.