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The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a renewed license for Westinghouse's Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility in Hopkins, South Carolina, which means it can continue producing nuclear fuel for commercial nuclear power reactors until September 2062.
The facility has experienced more than 40 environmental and safety problems since 1980.
Fuel source still vulnerable to Russian supply risk and safety concerns
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Federal officials have granted a South Carolina factory which is just one of three in the country making fuel for nuclear plants a license to keep operating for 40 years. Environmental groups had fought the new license for Westinghouse Nuclear in Columbia or at least asked federal officials to limit it to 20 years because of more than 40 environmental and safety problems at the facility since 1980.
A South Carolina factory that makes fuel for nuclear plants has received a license to keep operating for 40 years. The factory is one of three nuclear fuel plants in the U.S.