Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station Unit 1 – Subsequent License Renewal: NRC subsequent licence renewal review for Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc. — issued, 20.5 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 | Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc. |
| Facility | Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station (V.C. Summer 1) |
| Docket | 50-395 |
| Submitted | 2023-08-17 |
| Docketed (accepted for review) | 2023-10-16 |
| NRC planned schedule | — |
| NRC target date | — |
| Final safety evaluation | 2025-01-21 |
| Decision | 2025-06-30 |
| Review time (docketed → decision) | 20.5 mo |
| Submitted → decision | 22.4 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
Decided 2025-06-30, about five weeks after EO 14300 (May 2025); the 08/2025 target predates the EO. Draft SEIS comment period was reopened (FR 2025-01-23, 90 FR 8056). No FR notice establishing a Licensing Board was found for this application in an FR API search. NRC decision target: originally 2025-08, latest 2025-08. Schedule: Target 08/2025 unchanged in archived (Nov 2023, May 2025) and current pages; decided ~2 months early.
Timeline
- 2023-08-17 — Application submitted. (source)
- 2023-10-16 — FR notice of acceptance and opportunity for hearing. (source)
- 2025-01-21 — Final safety evaluation issued (Rev. 1 on 2025-03-04). (source)
- 2025-01-21 — Final safety evaluation issued. (source)
- 2025-05-08 — Final SEIS issued. (source)
- 2025-06-30 — Subsequent renewed license NPF-12 issued. (source)
- 2025-06-30 — 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/virgil-c-summer-nuclear-station-unit-1-subsequent-license-renewal-application
- https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/10/16/2023-22784
- https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/07/02/2025-12351
- https://web.archive.org/web/20231116052416/https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/applications/virgil-summer-subsequent.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250518155629/https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/applications/virgil-summer-subsequent.html
- https://www.nrc.gov/licensing-applications/operating-reactor-licensing/reactor-license-renewal/status-subsequent-license-renewal-applications