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Lawsuits Raise Stakes on Vogtle Nuclear Expansion Vote

September 13, 2018 admin Business, Construction, courts, jea, lawsuit, Legal & Regulatory, meag power, news, Nuclear, nuclear power plant, power purchase agreement, ppa, Vogtle

As a vote by owners on the fate of the Vogtle nuclear expansion project hangs in the balance, the City of Jacksonville, Florida, and JEA—the city’s municipal utility that serves about 458,000 electric customers—filed a complaint in the Fourth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida on September 11 asking for declaratory judgment on a power purchase […]

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Fate of Vogtle Nuclear Expansion Hinges on Minority Owners

August 22, 2018 admin Business, dalton utilities, Georgia Power, meag power, news, Nuclear, nuclear power plant, oglethorpe power, Southern Co., southern nuclear, Vogtle

On August 8, Georgia Power announced that its revised capital and construction cost forecast for its share of the Plant Vogtle expansion project had increased from $7.3 billion to $8.4 billion, based on a revised cost-to-complete estimate from Southern Nuclear. The news was softened somewhat by Georgia Power’s declaration that significant construction progress had been […]

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First AP1000 Nuclear Units Reach Key Milestones

June 22, 2018 admin AP1000, Business, fuel load, haiyang, initial criticality, International, new construction, news, Nuclear, nuclear power plant, Plant Design, reactor, sanmen, Technology, V.C. Summer, Vogtle, Westinghouse

Two Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear power plants being constructed in China have successfully completed significant project milestones. Sanmen Unit 1—the world’s first AP1000 reactor—achieved initial criticality on June 21. Initial criticality is a nuclear industry term meaning the reactor’s neutron population has remained steady from one generation to the next and the nuclear fission chain reaction […]

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First AP1000 Nuclear Units Reach Key Milestones

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