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V. C. Summer Unit 1 is a Westinghouse 3-loop Pressurized Water Reactor. The reactor first began commercial operation on January 1, 1984. The plant cost $1.3 billion to construct (equivalent to $4 billion in 2023)– 24 percent less per kilowatt than the average of 13 nuclear plants constructed over the same time period.
The Virgil C. Summer nuclear station in 2013. 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 ...
The Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, also known as Plant Vogtle (/ ˈvoʊɡəl / VOH-gəl), [4] is a four-unit nuclear power plant located in Burke County, near Waynesboro, Georgia, in the southeastern United States. With a power capacity of 4,536 megawatts, it is the largest nuclear power plant (as of 2013), the largest source of low ...
FILE - This Sept. 21, 2016 file photo shows Unit one of the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station near Jenkinsville, S.C. Federal authorities say a fourth executive has been charged for his role in a failed ...
Stephen Byrne, the last of the SCANA executives who conspired to hide the truth about the energy company’s failed $10 billion nuclear project in Fairfield County, was sentenced to 15 months in ...
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission downgraded its preliminary “yellow” warning for V.C. Summer Nuclear Station issued this October to a final “white" one after owner and operator ...
Westinghouse Electric Company LLC is an American nuclear power company formed in 1999 from the nuclear power division of the original Westinghouse Electric Corporation. [3] It offers nuclear products and services to utilities internationally, including nuclear fuel, service and maintenance, instrumentation, control and design of nuclear power ...
The VC Summer nuclear plant supplies power to many people, but it has run into trouble recently with federal inspectors. SC nuke plant failed to correct problem with safety system, feds say Skip ...