As reported by World Nuclear News, Unistar (wholly owned by Electricité de France) has requested, and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has agreed, to withdraw the COLA (combined Construction and Operating License Application) for the Calvert Cliffs 3 proposed new atomic reactor. This officially cancels what was the flagship EPR in North America.
Areva of France's "Evolutionary Power Reactor" was targeted at seven sites in the U.S., and was also under consideration in Ontario. But the Calvert Cliffs 3 project was suspended in October 2010 when its American partner, Constellation Energy of Baltimore, balked at the Obama administration's 11% credit subsidy fee on its offered $7.5 billion federal nuclear loan guarantee to finance the project. That would have meant $880 million of Constellation's own skin in the game, so the company abandoned the project, and got out of the new reactor biz. Since, all other EPR proposals in the U.S. have been suspended or outright cancelled, and Ontario Power Generation also decided against EPRs.