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What is the timetable from licensing to operation should Progress Energy decide to build a nuclear plant?

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What is the timetable from licensing to operation should Progress Energy decide to build a nuclear plant?

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Our forecasts show additional baseload generation will be needed by the middle of the next decade. The application to the NRC should be filed in summer 2008. If approved by the NRC, and if the decision is made to build, a new plant could be online around 2016.