Sentence examples for construction licenses from inspiring English sources

Also, obtaining a design license and then operating and construction licenses from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission might be easier, says Jennifer Weeks, director of a research project at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

The companies, which have five years to submit construction license applications, hope to begin operating the plants by 2020.

And the commission is trying to stick to its current schedule of issuing its first new construction license by the end of the year.

It would be the first vote on a construction license since 1978, a year before the Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania.

Up to now reactors had to obtain a construction license and then undergo a long wait for an operating license, resulting in expensive delays in starting up reactors that had essentially been completed.

President Obama promised to cancel the project during his 2008 campaign, and last year he told the Department of Energy to withdraw an application that it had submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a construction license.

Because the plant already has a precious construction license, albeit from 1974, and because of the authority's independent status, it faces far fewer obstacles than most other reactor builders.

The designation starts a clock that will require the Energy Department to apply for a construction license by the end of the year, but the department probably will not be ready.

Exelon hopes to score an operating and construction license for the PBMR by 2003.

In the past nuclear hopefuls would first apply to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a construction license.

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