Calvert Cliffs

At What Cost: Why Maryland Can’t Afford A New Reactor

Joint intervenors (NIRS, et al) reply brief to NRC, UniStar defending standing and admissibility of contentions in Calvert Cliffs-3 licensing proceeding.

Deal That Could Pave the Way for Four New Nuclear Reactors In the U.S. Is Taxpayer Boondoggle; statement from grassroots groups on UniStar Nuclear/Electricite de France/Constellation Energy buyout arrangement.

UniStar Nuclear reply brief to Joint Intervenors petition to intervene in Calvert Cliffs-3 license application.

NRC staff reply brief to Joint Intervenors petition to intervene in Calvert Cliffs-3 license application.

Powering Maryland’s Future, a new report from Maryland PIRG, shows that the proposed Calvert Cliffs-3 reactor would be too slow and too expensive to meet Maryland’s electricity needs, which can be generated more safely, cleanly, faster and cheaper from renewable energy sources and an aggressive energy efficiency program. Every state should have a report like this one!

Testimony of David Schlissel, Synapse Energy Economics, before the Maryland Public Service Commission, on the extraordinarily high cost estimates for new nuclear reactors. While this was prepared for hearings on the proposed Calvert Cliffs EPR, most of this testimony will be useful to anyone looking at nuclear power economics for any proposed reactor.

New Greenpeace International factsheet on numerous problems with Areva’s European Pressurized Reactor (EPR), which is being proposed for Calvert Cliffs, MD and other sites in the U.S.

New Greenpeace International factsheet on construction problems with Areva’s EPR at Flamenville, France.