In 2011 , a total of 45 groups and individuals from across the nation formally asked the NRC to suspend all licensing and other activities at 21 proposed nuclear reactor projects in 15 states until the NRC completed a thorough post-Fukushima nuclear disaster examination : The petition seeks suspension of six existing reactor license renewal decisions ( Columbia Generating Station , WA Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station , OH , Diablo Canyon Power Plant , CA , Indian Point Energy Center , NY , Pilgrim Nuclear Generating Station , MA , and Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant , NH ) ; 13 new reactor combined construction permit and operating license decisions ( Bellefonte Nuclear Generating Station Units 3 and 4 , AL , Bell Bend , Callaway Nuclear Generating Station , MO , Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Generating Station , MD , Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant , TX , Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station , MI , Levy County Nuclear Power Plant , FL North Anna Nuclear Generating Station , VA , Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant , NC , South Texas Nuclear Generating Station , TX , Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station , FL , Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant , GA , and William States Lee III Nuclear Generating Station , SC ) ; a construction permit decision ( Bellefonte Units 1 and 2 ) ; and an operating license decision ( Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station , TN ) . In addition , the petition asks the NRC to halt proceedings to approve the standardized AP1000 and Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor designs . The petitioners asked the NRC to supplement its own investigation by establishing an independent commission comparable to that set up in the wake of the less severe 1979 Three Mile Island accident . The petitioners included Public Citizen , Southern Alliance for Clean Energy , and San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace
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