The UniStar Corporation, the shell corporation solely owned by Electricitie de France, the state-run foreign nuclear utility, announced today that they have formally withdrawn their application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build and operate a new reactor, Nine Mile Point Unit 3, on the shore of Lake Ontario at Oswego, New York.
Originally, France's nuclear "renaissance" in the U.S. envisioned about a half dozen or more new "Evolutionay Power Reactor" units ordered in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Texas, Missouri and Idaho. Fundamentally, the flight of U.S. domestic partners over the astronomical financial burden of new reactor construction has resulted in a licensing train wreck over at NRC.