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With a power capacity of 4,536 megawatts, it is the largest nuclear power plant in the United States (as of 2013), when construction of Units 3 & 4 began. [5] It is also the only nuclear plant in the country with four units. It is named after a former Alabama Power and Southern Company board chairman, Alvin Vogtle.
One of the two nuclear reactors at Georgia’s Plant Vogtle has been taken offline due to a “valve issue”. The announcement came roughly a week after Unit 3 of the reactor was powered down ...
The construction of Plant Vogtle’s Units 3 and 4 has been mired in budget overruns and delayed for years. When it comes online, Plant Vogtle’s Unit 3 will be the first new operating nuclear ...
Operator says at no time were employees or the community in danger. There is no timeline for it to return to service.
The construction of those reactors — Units 3 and 4 of Plant Vogtle, the first U.S. nuclear reactors built from scratch in decades — was a years-long saga whose delays and budget overruns drove ...
Erosion of the 6-inch-thick (150 mm) carbon steel reactor head, caused by a persistent leak of borated water, at the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant. The United States Government Accountability Office reported more than 150 incidents from 2001 to 2006 of nuclear plants not performing within acceptable safety guidelines.
Oglethorpe Power owns a 30% share of Plant Vogtle, MEAG Power has a 22.7% stake and Georgia Power owns 45.7%. In August 2018 Georgia Power announced another $2.3 billion in cost overruns ...
Alvin W. Vogtle Nuclear Electric Generating Plant (Plant Vogtle) Waynesboro, Georgia: 4,536 (unit 4 commissioned in April) 4: 1987 - Unit 1 1989 - Unit 2 2023 - Unit 3 2024 - Unit 4 Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Electric Generating Plant (Plant Hatch) Baxley, Georgia