It took 15 years and 14,000 workers to build the first two nuclear power reactors at Vogtle Electric Generating Plant. Units 1 and 2 were completed in 1989 at a cost of $8.79 billion. The time frame for constructing Units 3 and 4 is six to seven years, and only 3,000 to 3,500 workers will be needed. Today the design of the reactors is simpler and most parts are built elsewhere then shipped to the site. The cost is projected at $14.5 billion.
Learn more about Vogtle's new reactors in a special report in Sunday's Chronicle.
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Good for the area getting some more jobs but the power generated likely will go elsewhere!!
Well John BOY, if they sell it elsewhere it helps our rates stay low.
I don't care where it goes as long as it is generated here in GA and helps our economy. I just hope the liberals and EPA and environmentalist nut jobs don't hold the process up. The red tape should be cut to speed up the process cause I am sure that is what will take it so long to be built.
I was there the first day they started clearing the site in 74. We spent the afternoon filling a GPCo pickup with displaced baby rabbits and turtles. I was there on the day they stopped the project and put it on hold for years. Glad to see it expanding.