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Docket No. EO-05-01: Pursuant to Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act, 16 USC § 824a(c), Section 301(b) of the Department of Energy Organization Act, 42 USC §7151 (b), and Order No, 202-05-3, isslled by the Department of Energy ("DOE" or the "Department") on December 20, 2005 ("Order"), Mirant Potomac River, LLC ("Mirant") hereby submits the following Supplement Number 4 to the Operating Plan submitted to the Department on December 30, 2005 (the "Operating Plan") in response to the Order,

Docket No. EO-05-01: Exhibit D: Mirant POtomar River Schedule of Unit Operations in support of Supplement Number 4 to the Operating Plan of Mirant Potomac River, LLC

Docket No. EO-05-01: Pursuant to Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act, 16 USC § 824a(c), Section 301(b) of the Department of Energy Organization Act, 42 USC §7151 (b), and Order No, 202-05-3, isslled by the Department of Energy ("DOE" or the "Depa...

GNEP will help prevent misuse of civilian nuclear facilities for nonpeaceful purposes by developing enhanced safeguards programs and technologies. International nuclear safeguards are integral to implementing the GNEP vision of a peaceful expansion of nuclear energy and demonstration of more proliferation-resistant fuel cycle technologies.

The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) is a comprehensive strategy to increase U.S. and global energy security, encourage clean development around the world, reduce the risk of nuclear proliferation, and improve the environment.

GNEP will increase the efficiency in the management of used nuclear fuel, also known as spent fuel, and defer the need for additional geologic nuclear waste repositories until the next century.

Under GNEP, the U.S. will work with GNEP partners to demonstrate the capability to safely recycle used nuclear fuel using more proliferation resistant separation processes. In support of this effort, the U.S and its international partners would conduct an Engineering-Scale Demonstration (ESD) of a process that would separate the usable components in used commercial fuel from its waste components, without separating pure plutonium. An Advanced Fuel Cycle Facility (AFCF) would be a multi-purpose research and development laboratory that can serve fuel cycle testing needs for 50 years or more.

GNEP will develop and demonstrate Advanced Burner Reactors (ABRs) that consume transuranic elements (plutonium and other long-lived radioactive material) while extracting their energy. The development of ABRs will allow us to build an improved nuclear fuel cycle that recycles used fuel. Accordingly, the U.S. will work with participating international partners on the design, development, and demonstration of ABRs as part of the GNEP.

GNEP would build and strengthen a reliable international fuel services consortium under which “fuel supplier nations” would choose to operate both nuclear power plants and fuel production and handling facilities, providing reliable fuel services to “user nations” that choose to only operate nuclear power plants. This international consortium is a critical component of the GNEP initiative to build an improved, more proliferation-resistant nuclear fuel cycle that recycles used fuel, while