Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 04:18:32 +0000
Atlanta-based energy giant Southern Co. has rapidly evolved to keep in step with the evolution of power. As part of its corporate growth, the company has notably pioneered technologies that have reshaped
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 17:59:30 +0000
Southern Co. on July 28 increased its cost estimate for Georgia Power’s share of the two-unit expansion of the Vogtle nuclear plant. Southern, during an investor presentation of the company’s second-quarter financial results, said Georgia Power’s share of capital costs for the project has risen by $52 million, to about $10.5 billion in total. Georgia […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 22:53:01 +0000
Southern Co. CEO Tom Fanning said the group continues to stick to its most-recent timeline for startup of the two-unit expansion of the Vogtle nuclear plant in Georgia, telling participants in the company’s first-quarter 2022 earnings call that construction is pacing well, with fuel load for Unit 3 expected later this year. “Importantly, the […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 11:34:04 +0000
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The past year has been filled with firsts for the nuclear power industry. Three power plants sporting first-of-a-kind reactors entered commercial operation, while the first U.S. AP1000 nuclear project reached key milestones on its path to completion. Furthermore, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) granted the first early site permit for a utility to construct […]
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Read moreCredit 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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Read moreCredit 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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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 13:55:30 +0000
The post Exelon’s Byron 2 Completes First Insertion of Westinghouse Accident-Tolerant Fuel appeared first on POWER Magazine.
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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Read moreCredit 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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Read moreCredit 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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Read moreCredit 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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