Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant Units 1 and 2 – License Renewal: NRC licence renewal review for Vistra Operations Company LLC — issued, 20 months from docketing to decision. Sourced dates and schedule.
Background: NRC reactor licensing process, explained · The ADVANCE Act, explained: what changed and where the NRC stands
Current state
| Type | Licence renewal |
| Outcome | Issued |
| Applicant | Vistra Operations Company LLC |
| Facility | Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant (Comanche Peak 1, Comanche Peak 2) |
| Docket | 50-445, 50-446 |
| Submitted | 2022-10-03 |
| Docketed (accepted for review) | 2022-11-29 |
| NRC planned schedule | — |
| NRC target date | — |
| Final safety evaluation | 2024-03-18 |
| Decision | 2024-07-30 |
| Review time (docketed → decision) | 20.0 mo |
| Submitted → decision | 21.9 mo |
| NRC-reported review duration | — |
| NRC-reported resources vs estimate | — |
Review time is measured in average months from the date the NRC docketed the application to the decision. The NRC's own reported durations may measure to the final safety evaluation instead.
Notes
No Federal Register notice of issuance was found for Comanche Peak; decided date rests on the NRC plant page and status table (and the title/date of NRC News Release 24-062, July 30, 2024, whose body is not served). Contested (Citizens for Fair Utility Regulation, Jan 2023); outcome not in fetched sources. NRC decision target: originally 2024-09, latest 2024-09. Schedule: Schedule change letters dated 09/21/2023 and 11/30/2023 listed on NRC page; decision target 09/2024 in June 2023 archive and current page; issued ~2 months early.
Timeline
- 2022-10-03 — Application submitted. (source)
- 2022-11-29 — Acceptance FRN (NRC page actual date). (source)
- 2022-12-01 — FR acceptance notice publication (87 FR 73798). (source)
- 2023-01-30 — Hearing request by Citizens for Fair Utility Regulation (ASLB established 2023-02-14). (source)
- 2024-03-18 — Safety evaluation issued. (source)
- 2024-03-18 — Final safety evaluation issued. (source)
- 2024-04-26 — Final SEIS issued. (source)
- 2024-07-30 — Renewed licenses issued. (source)
- 2024-07-30 — Issued. (source)
The timeline is append-only: corrections are added as new entries. See the NNN Data License Terms for reuse of the event history.
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Sources
- https://www.nrc.gov/licensing-applications/power-reactor-licensing/comanche-peak-nuclear-power-plant-units-1-and-2-license-renewal-application
- https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/10/31/2022-23633
- https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/12/01/2022-26202
- https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/14/2023-03082
- https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/news-releases/2024/nrc-renews-comanche-peak-operating-licenses
- https://web.archive.org/web/20230921/https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/applications/comanche-peak.html
- https://www.nrc.gov/licensing-applications/status-initial-license-renewal-applications-and-industry-initiatives