After more than a decade, nuclear power generation could be closer than many realize to returning to Kewaunee County.
World Nuclear News reported Thursday that EnergySolutions, the company that owns the Kewaunee Power Station site in the Town of Carlton, has formally confirmed plans to submit an application for a major licensing action for new nuclear generation by June 2028.
EnergySolutions and WEC Energy Group announced last May their intention to determine whether the Kewaunee Power Station, which last operated in 2013, could again be used to generate power. The announcement came three years after EnergySolutions purchased the site from Dominion Energy while it was being decommissioned…