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The Nukegate scandal was a political and legal scandal that arose from the abandonment of the Virgil C. Summer nuclear expansion project in South Carolina by South Carolina Electric & Gas (SCE&G) and the South Carolina Public Service Authority (known as Santee Cooper) in 2017. It was the largest business failure in the history of South Carolina.
The failure of SCANA and Westinghouse to build the nuclear plant in Fairfield County, a surprise development announced in July 2017, threw thousands of people out of work and led to a buyout of ...
Benjamin, a former Westinghouse Electric Corp.’s senior vice president for new plants and major projects, is the fourth and last defendant in an FBI investigation that began in 2017, shortly ...
In South Korea, Westinghouse has been involved in the construction of new nuclear plants since 1972, with the first plant Kori Nuclear Power Plant starting up in 1977 and in commercial operation in 1978, followed by eight reactors under construction in the early 1980s. Combustion Engineering (now Westinghouse) entered into a ten-year technology ...
A South Carolina federal judge had tossed out an earlier indictment against Jeffrey Benjamin, the former Westinghouse charged in the SCANA nuclear scandal.
Adams County plant: Westinghouse was fined $5.5 million in 1996 for polluting groundwater in over 100 wells, as well as other water sources, while operating its Westinghouse Elevator Company plant in Adams County, Pennsylvania. Degreasers and other toxic chemicals were released over a five-year period in the 1980s.
Carl Churchman escaped prison because of his remorse and expertise in the nuclear power industry. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
The plant was a protoype for the Westinghouse 4-loop design [2] (usually 1150 MWe), with a capacity of 582MWe. [3] Demolition of the containment dome was completed the week of July 17, 2006. Kenneth Nichols , the deputy to Leslie Groves on the Manhattan Project , was a consultant for the Connecticut Yankee and Yankee Rowe nuclear power plants.