Holtec dodges N.J. criminal charges New Jersey-based Holtec International last Tuesday (Jan. 30) agreed to pay its home state a $5 million fine in order to avoid criminal prosecution for falsifying documents related to a 2018 state-awarded tax break program. The development in New Jersey could scuttle widespread rumors, most likely spread by Holtec, that… More Nuclear Gatherings: Palisades, Vogtle 4, Hinkley Point, France
NuScale Power has landed a deal with privately-owned blockchain data center developer Standard Power to provide two planned data centers in Pennsylvania and Ohio, 924-MW each, with electricity from arrays of NuScale’s 77-MW VOYGR small modular reactors, 12 for each data center. NuScale’s partner ENTRA1 Energy has the exclusive rights to develop, manage, own and… More Nuclear Merry-Go-Round: NuScale, Vogtle, Palisades
Georgia Power’s 1,117-MW Vogtle 3 nuclear unit, the first U.S. nuclear reactor ordered since 1974 to reach this far, is now splitting atoms. The Westinghouse AP-1000, one of two new pressurized water reactors under construction at the existing two-unit Vogtle site, went critical on Monday (March 6), beginning a process that should lead up to… More Atomic Assemblage: Vogtle, EDF, Vistra, Jail
The sun rises in the East and sets in the West. And Georgia’s Southern Co. investor-owned utility announces further delays in startup of Vogtle Units 3 and 4, the only nuclear power plant under construction in the U.S. In its annual financial report issued yesterday (Feb. 16), the company said it will push the startup… More No Surprises Here: Further Vogtle Nuclear Delays
Some interesting recent nuclear news items worth reporting, at a time of the year when vacations dominate business and news is slow. Vogtle: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Wednesday (Aug. 3) gave thumbs up for Georgia Power to begin startup operations at its Vogtle 3 nuclear unit, signing off on the second phase of… More Nuclear Roundup: Vogtle 3, Hinkley B, Germany, EDF, Crocs
The majority owners of Georgia Power’s troubled Vogtle 3 and 4 nuclear construction venture have sued Georgia Power for some $700 million, claiming that the lead utility on the $30 billion two-unit, 2,200-MW plant has violated a contract designed to limit additional costs being passed to the two public power systems that together own 52.7%.… More Vogtle 3,4 owners sue to freeze their costs
It’s no surprise to anyone covering the story for a while, but the price tag for Georgia Power’s Vogtle two-unit, 2,000-MW new nuclear plant has now surpassed $30 billion. That’s more than double the original cost estimate for a plant planned to be in operation in 2016. It now looks very likely that neither unit… More $30 billion: More up, up, and away at troubled Vogtle
Atlanta-based Southern Co.’s plagued two-unit, 2,000-MW Vogtle nuclear construction project, already vastly over budget and behind schedule, has suffered another setback, one that could put the cost of the project to over $30 billion and take another six months to resolve. The announcement could add $920 million to the project’s cost. When major Vogtle construction… More More Vogtle delays, even higher costs
It’s the nuclear news story that won’t go away. More delays look in store for the Southern Company’s troubled two-unit, 2,000-MW Vogtle 3-4 construction project. The Georgia Power project to build new, 1,000-MW Westinghouse reactors at an existing site, which began construction in 2009, with a project startup in 2014, could now be pushed back… More Vogtle Déjà Vu: More Schedule Delays?
It’s an all-too-familiar story. Southern Company subsidiary Georgia Power has again announced a delay in the long-anticipated, long-delayed, and vastly over budget opening of its two-unit Vogtle nuclear expansion project. Construction on the two-unit, 2,000-MW project, using Westinghouse AP-1000 advanced pressurized water reactors, began in 2009, with an anticipated startup of the first unit in… More More delays (yawn) at the Vogtle nuke project