It received its operating license on March 9, 1998 from the government.

In 2010, the plant applied to have its operating license extended from 2030 to 2050.

The utility will, of course, try to win its nuclear operating license.

Neither program has obtained the required operating license, state officials said.

Iraqi officials have since refused to give the company an operating license.

But until this year, all three were bound by the terms of their operating licenses.

Five violations of rules set in the plant's operating license.

Last month, the department formally denied the company an operating license.

And the companies' operating licenses allow the government to put any area off limits in the interests of national security.

According to their original operating licenses, the two companies were not allowed to ever own each other's license.