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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 ...
A South Carolina federal judge had tossed out an earlier indictment against Jeffrey Benjamin, the former Westinghouse charged in the SCANA nuclear scandal. Top Westinghouse official indicted ...
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 ...
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 ...
George Galatis was a senior nuclear engineer and whistleblower who reported safety problems at the Millstone 1 Nuclear Power Plant, relating to reactor refueling procedures, in 1996. [50] [51] The unsafe procedures meant that spent fuel rod pools at Unit 1 had the potential to boil, possibly releasing radioactive steam throughout the plant. [52]
The Westinghouse Atom Smasher was intended to make measurements of nuclear reactions for research in nuclear power. [8] It was the first industrial Van de Graaff generator in the world, [9] and marked the beginning of nuclear research for civilian applications. [10] [11] Built in 1937, it was a 65-foot-tall (20 m) pear-shaped tower.
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