What is being proposed, and what isn’t.
The Nuclear Company is proposing Prosperity One, a phased nuclear energy campus of up to six AP1000 reactors at Carrs Bottom on the Ohio River in Lewis County, Kentucky.
Proposed. Not licensed, financed or approved.Proposed, and not yet decided
- Up to six AP1000 units
- About 6.6 gigawatts if all six were built, at approximately 1,100 megawatts per unit
- Two units first
- Carrs Bottom, on the Ohio River in Lewis County
- Total land
- Layout
- Cooling design
- Schedule
- Owners and financing
- Who buys the power
- Grid connection point
Two units first. Later units would each need their own decision.
Initial planning contemplates two units, subject to site studies, licensing, a grid-connection agreement and financing. Later units would each need their own decisions.
An option at Carrs Bottom
The Nuclear Company has secured an option on land at Carrs Bottom from a local landowner and is evaluating additional land a full campus would need.
No license, grid-connection agreement or federal loan has been awarded or approved.
No Nuclear Regulatory Commission or PJM application has been filed.
No renderings at launch.
We are showing where the site is, not what it would look like. Any rendering published later will be labeled: “Conceptual rendering for illustration only. Not an engineering design, and not approved by any regulator.”
Map to come: a location marker for Carrs Bottom on the Ohio River in Lewis County.We will say so here.
If studies show the site cannot meet federal requirements, or the project cannot be financed responsibly, it will not go forward at this scale or at all. We will say so here.
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