Oswego May Get the New Nuclear Reactor it Wants

All the way back in March 2005, we told you about how the Mayor of Oswego, New York made a pitch to bring a new nuclear reactor to his town. Now it looks like the town is one step closer to making that happen.

From the Syracuse Post-Standard:

Work has begun on getting government approval for a fourth nuclear power plant in Oswego County.

UniStar Nuclear, a company led by Constellation Energy - the owner of Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station - started a feasibility study this spring looking at the site's "overall suitability to host a new nuclear plant," said UniStar President George Vanderheyden.

The study is the first step in a process that could lead to a nuclear plant being built there in the middle of the next decade.

The process is further along at Calvert Cliffs in Lusby, Md., where UniStar has completed and submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission the environmental portion of a license application.

"Calvert Cliffs is our reference application," Vanderheyden said in a phone interview from the company's offices in Baltimore.

Another sign of progress, just one step at a time.