First American nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia
Georgia Power Co. announced Monday that Unit 3 at, southeast of Augusta, has completed testing and is now sending power to the grid reliably.
Nuclear power now makes up about 25% of the generation of Georgia Power, the largest unit of Atlanta-based Southern Co. The third and fourth reactors were originally supposed to cost $14 billion, but are now on track to cost their owners $31 billion. That doesn’t include $3.7 billion that original contractor Westinghouse paid to the owners to walk away from the project. That brings total spending to almost $35 billion.Vogtle is important because government officials and some utilities areto alleviate climate change by generating electricity without burning natural gas, coal and oil.
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