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Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants: Regarding Subsequent License Renewal for Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2 - Draft Report for Comment (NUREG-1437, Supplement 23, Second Renewal)

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Manuscript Completed: April 2025
Date Published: April 2025

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Abstract

In November 2021, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff issued the Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, Supplement 23, Second Renewal, Regarding Subsequent License Renewal for Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2 (Point Beach), Draft Report for Comment. The staff prepared that document as part of its environmental review of the NextEra Energy Point Beach, LLC application to renew the operating licenses for Point Beach for an additional 20 years. That document included the staff's evaluation of the environmental impacts of license renewal and alternatives to license renewal and the staff’s preliminary recommendation that the adverse environmental impacts of license renewal for Point Beach are not so great that preserving the option of license renewal for energy-planning decisionmakers would be unreasonable. 

This document is the second draft report on the NRC staff's environmental review of the Point Beach subsequent license renewal application. This second draft report includes the staff's evaluation of new information obtained since the issuance of the November 2021 first draft report. This information includes the new and revised environmental issues and impact determinations contained in the NRC's 2024 final rule revising its environmental protection regulation, Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 51, "Environmental Protection Regulations for Domestic Licensing and Related Regulatory Functions," and Revision 2 of NUREG-1437,"Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants." The staff also considered any new and significant information with respect to generic  (i.e., Category 1) environmental issues and determinations. For the convenience of the reader, where this second draft report retains the language of the November 2021 first draft report, it identifies substantive changes to that language including text corrections or updates using red bold text for additions and red strikeout text for deletions. Minor editorial revisions and revisions limited to formatting are not marked. In some instances, text that has not otherwise changed has been retained to provide context. Otherwise, for clarity, instead of repeating language from the November 2021 first draft report, the second draft report simply states that there are no substantive changes to that language.

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