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State Regulators Warn of More Delays at Vogtle

November 25, 2019 admin 0 Comments Georgia Power, Legal & Regulatory, news, Nuclear, Southern Co., Vogtle

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:33:12 +0000

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A filing by Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) staff and consultants on Nov. 22 said Georgia Power’s expansion of the Vogtle nuclear power plant is falling further behind schedule. The filing Friday came the same day that the utility announced the sixth and last containment ring for the two-unit expansion was set in place. The […]

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Last Major Module Received at Vogtle Nuclear Site

October 7, 2019 admin Business, Construction, expansion, news, Nuclear, Nuclear plant, supply chains, Vogtle, vogtle units 3 and 4

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 17:21:30 +0000

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The final major module needed to construct Vogtle Units 3 and 4—the only new commercial nuclear power units currently under construction in the U.S.—has arrived at the site near Waynesboro, Georgia. That means all 1,485 major modules have been manufactured and safely delivered to the project. Georgia Power announced the milestone in a press release […]

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Exelon’s Byron 2 Completes First Insertion of Westinghouse Accident-Tolerant Fuel

September 12, 2019 admin accident tolerant fuel, Business, byron, cladding, Clinton, Exelon, framatome, gnef, hatch, Legal & Regulatory, news, Nuclear, pellets, Research and Development, Technology, Vogtle, Westinghouse

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 13:55:30 +0000

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Exelon’s Byron Unit 2 nuclear power plant has completed installation of EnCore Fuel, Westinghouse Electric Co.’s accident-tolerant fuel (ATF) solution, marking the start of the first test of uranium silicide fuel pellets in a commercial nuclear reactor. The installation, completed during the plant’s scheduled 18-day spring refueling outage this April, but publicly announced on Sept. […]

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Dispute Flares About Equipment at Abandoned V.C. Summer Nuclear Project

May 16, 2019 admin AP1000, Business, courts, lawsuit, news, Nuclear, Santee Cooper, SCANA, SOUTH CAROLINA, southern, Technology, Vogtle, Westinghouse

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 13:24:22 +0000

The fight about who owns equipment at the now-abandoned V.C. Summer 2 and 3 AP1000 reactors in South Carolina intensified on May 14, as key stakeholder Santee Cooper sued lead contractor Westinghouse for certification documentation related to that equipment. The lawsuit filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, Charleston Division, […]

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Vogtle 2 Installs World’s First Full Accident-Tolerant Fuel Assemblies

April 5, 2019 admin ATF, Business, cea, DOE, EDF, framatome, France, Fuel, Georgia Power, gnf, hatch, news, Nuclear, Research and Development, southern nuclear, Technology, Vogtle, Westinghouse

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 22:45:46 +0000

The world’s first complete advanced fuel test assemblies containing accident-tolerant fuel (ATF) have been installed at Southern Co.’s Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant’s Unit 2 in Georgia. Nuclear giant Framatome delivered the GAIA lead fuel assemblies containing enhanced ATF (EATF), including both pellets and cladding, to the plant owned by Georgia Power in January. […]

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Vogtle Loan Guarantees Praised, Criticized

March 23, 2019 admin aea, AP1000, Business, Georgia, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, news, Nuclear, rick perry, Vogtle, Westinghouse

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 15:39:51 +0000

Energy Secretary Rick Perry on March 22 said his department will guarantee up to $3.7 billion in additional loans to finance continued construction of two new nuclear reactors at the Vogtle plant in Georgia. While Perry and other government officials stressed the importance of the project to the U.S. nuclear industry, critics called it a […]

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Southern Company CEO: Vogtle Ahead of Schedule

February 20, 2019 admin AP1000, Business, fanning, news, Nuclear, Vogtle, Westinghouse

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:20:53 +0000

Southern Company CEO Thomas Fanning on February 20 said construction of two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle is on track and could possibly beat the current regulatory approved startup dates for the AP1000 units. Fanning spoke Wednesday on the company’s fourth-quarter 2018 earnings call. He said Georgia Power, a Southern Company subsidiary and the […]

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Georgia PSC Backs Additional Costs for Vogtle Nuclear Project

February 19, 2019 admin AP1000, Business, Georgia Power, georgia public service commission, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, news, Nuclear, Vogtle

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 23:34:54 +0000

Georgia regulators on February 19 approved another $526.4 million in expenditures by Georgia Power related to the long-delayed Vogtle nuclear power plant expansion near Waynesboro, Georgia. Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) members voted 4-1 to approve a settlement agreement for the 19th Vogtle Construction Monitoring (VCM) Report, which covers the first six months of 2018. The […]

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Consortium Asks UK to Support SMR Nuclear Development

January 28, 2019 admin Business, hitachi, International, news, Nuclear, Plant Design, Research and Development, Rolls-Royce, Small Modular Reactor, Technology, toshiba, uk, ukri, V.C. Summer, Vogtle

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 20:16:57 +0000

Small modular reactors (SMRs) are becoming a technology of choice among those who continue to push nuclear power as a zero-emissions source of generation. The collapse of plans to build new large reactors in the UK has meant companies there are looking at SMRs in an effort to keep that country’s nuclear power program viable. […]

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Finnish Nuclear Plant Start-up Delayed Again

December 26, 2018 admin bellefonte, Business, cumbria, edf energy, EPR, fennovoima, Finland, flamanville 3, hanhikivi 1, hinkley point c, International, Legal & Regulatory, moorside, news, Nuclear, olkiluoto 3, rosatom, Russia, stuk, Technology, V.C. Summer, Vogtle, vver

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2018 23:24:47 +0000

Another nuclear power project has been delayed, as the Fennovoima consortium and Russia’s state-run nuclear company Rosatom said the Hanhikivi 1 power plant’s projected start-up date has been pushed to 2028, four years behind the original schedule and eight years later than the proposed start when Finland’s government supported the project in 2010. The announcement […]

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