Emission-free Nuclear Power

We are laying the groundwork for an expansion of clean nuclear energy at our North Anna Power Station in Louisa County, Va. Dominion is seeking a federal Combined Operating License (COL) authorizing construction and operation of a new reactor at North Anna. It would feature an advanced, simplified design using boiling water reactor (BWR) technology from General Electric. The new unit could meet the energy needs of as many as 375,000 homes.

And it would produce virtually no emissions into the atmosphere - including carbon. Operation of this new unit would be the equivalent of removing 1.5 million vehicles from America's highways. Nuclear power must play a major role in efforts to combat climate change.

Additionally, it would employ a low-profile cooling tower to avoid placing any additional heat into Lake Anna and the Waste Heat Treatment Facility, already used to cool the two existing units.

Dominion has always viewed nuclear energy as a safe, reliable and clean energy source. Currently, North Anna and Surry, our other nuclear station in Virginia, provide more than a third of the state's electricity.

Although Dominion has not made a final decision to build the unit, it wants to keep the nuclear energy option available to meet the Commonwealth's future energy needs.

If federal and state authorities approve construction, and Dominion decides to proceed, work could get underway as early as 2010, with electricity produced as early as 2015.

Learn more about the North Anna 3 project.