Oconee Nuclear Station Units 1, 2 and 3 – Subsequent License Renewal: NRC subsequent licence renewal review for Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC — issued, 44.1 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 | Subsequent licence renewal |
| Outcome | Issued |
| Applicant | Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC |
| Facility | Oconee Nuclear Station (Oconee 1, Oconee 2, Oconee 3) |
| Docket | 50-269, 50-270, 50-287 |
| Submitted | 2021-06-07 |
| Docketed (accepted for review) | 2021-07-28 |
| NRC planned schedule | — |
| NRC target date | — |
| Final safety evaluation | 2022-12-19 |
| Decision | 2025-03-31 |
| Review time (docketed → decision) | 44.1 mo |
| Submitted → decision | 45.8 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
Affected by the Feb 2022 GEIS orders; safety review finished 2022-12-19, the rest was the site-specific environmental review. Contested (2021 and 2024 hearing requests); outcomes of those petitions were not stated in the fetched sources. NRC decision target: originally 2023-01, latest 2024-10. Schedule: Original target 01/2023; after the Feb 2022 GEIS orders the decision was 'TBD*'; revised schedule (ML22094A190) after ER Supplement 2 (Nov 7, 2022); last scheduled 10/2024; actual 03/31/2025.
Timeline
- 2021-06-07 — Application submitted. (source)
- 2021-07-28 — FR notice of acceptance and opportunity for hearing. (source)
- 2021-09-27 — Hearing request by Beyond Nuclear and Sierra Club (ASLB established 2021-10-08). (source)
- 2022-02-24 — Commission GEIS orders affect review. (source)
- 2022-11-07 — Licensee submits ER Supplement 2. (source)
- 2022-12-19 — Safety evaluation issued. (source)
- 2022-12-19 — Final safety evaluation issued. (source)
- 2024-04-29 — Hearing request on draft SEIS by Beyond Nuclear and Sierra Club (ASLB established 2024-05-08). (source)
- 2025-01-31 — Final SEIS issued. (source)
- 2025-03-31 — Subsequent renewed licenses DPR-38, DPR-47, DPR-55 issued. (source)
- 2025-03-31 — 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/oconee-nuclear-station-units-1-2-and-3-subsequent-license-renewal-application
- https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/07/28/2021-16011
- https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/04/04/2025-05792
- https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/10/08/2021-21978
- https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/05/08/2024-09975
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210921/https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/applications/oconee-subsequent.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20221219/https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/applications/oconee-subsequent.html
- https://www.nrc.gov/licensing-applications/operating-reactor-licensing/reactor-license-renewal/status-subsequent-license-renewal-applications