Southern Co. subsidiary Georgia Power and other Plant Vogtle owners are disputing proposed adjustments that could add $900 million to the $14 billion cost of completing two new reactors.
By Rob Pavey | Friday, May 11, 2012
Rebar installed at the construction site for Plant Vogtle's new Unit 3 reactor is not consistent with approved design standards, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
By Rob Pavey | Thursday, April 26, 2012
Southern Co., the parent company of Georgia Power and partial owner of Plant Vogtle, reported first quarter earnings of $368 million, or 42 cents a share, compared with $422 million, or 50 cents a ...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Burke County native Sonny Bargeron has been named plant manager at Plant Vogtle, replacing Russ Dedrickson, who will become fleet support manager at Southern Nuclear's corporate office in ...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Plant Vogtle's Unit 1 nuclear reactor was restarted today after a precautionary shutdown over the weekend in which a sensor indicated an issue with a water pump.
By Rob Pavey | Monday, April 16, 2012
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission today rejected a request from environmental groups to delay the addition of two new reactors at Plant Vogtle.
By Walter Jones and Rob Pavey | Monday, April 16, 2012
Plant Vogtle's Unit 1 nuclear reactor was unexpectedly shut down Saturday after a sensor indicated an issue with a water pump.
By Rob Pavey | Sunday, April 15, 2012
Cost estimates for the $8.3 billion federal loan guarantee for Southern Nuclear's Plant Vogtle expansion remain unavailable, despite a judge's conclusion they should be made public.
By Rob Pavey | Thursday, April 12, 2012
An environmental group's two-year quest for details about the U.S. Department of Energy's $8.3 billion federal loan guarantee for the Plant Vogtle expansion must be partially honored.
By Rob Pavey | Thursday, March 29, 2012
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold an open house in Waynesboro on Thursday, March 29, to discuss recent assessments and inspections of Plant Vogtle's existing reactors.
By Rob Pavey | Friday, March 23, 2012
The same nuclear fuel that will power Plant Vogtle's new reactors will get its first tryout as early as next year in China, where the world's first AP1000 unit is expected to go online in 2013.
By Rob Pavey | Thursday, March 22, 2012
A major exercise Wednesday at Plant Vogtle and Waynesboro, Ga., will be monitored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission as a host of state and local ...
By Rob Pavey | Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Workers are setting the basemat rebar for Plant Vogtle's new Unit 3 nuclear reactor, scheduled to begin producing electricity in 2016.
By Rob Pavey | Friday, March 16, 2012
The U.S. Department of Energy's federal loan guarantee program - of which Plant Vogtle is the largest proposed beneficiary - is not following its own rules for evaluating applications and ...
By Rob Pavey | Tuesday, March 13, 2012
More than 70 people attended an event Sunday in Burke County to observe the one-year anniversary of the disaster at Fukushima and to protest the two new reactors at Plant Vogtle.
By Summer Moore | Sunday, March 11, 2012
A contractor's program manager was banned from Plant Vogtle after refusing orders to make procedural changes at the construction site of nuclear units 3 and 4.
By From Staff Reports | Thursday, March 8, 2012
An independent study of irradiated MOX fuel samples confirms the material will work properly in commercial power reactors, according to a report given to federal regulators Wednesday.
By Rob Pavey | Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012
Southern Nuclear wants a legal challenge to the licensing of new reactors at Plant Vogtle dismissed because the motion filed by environmental groups was too long.
By Rob Pavey | Friday, Feb. 24, 2012
Some of the heaviest components for Plant Vogtle's new reactor project have arrived in Burke County - in pieces.
By Rob Pavey | Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012
Nuclear expansion was touted this week as the answer to America's energy needs, but there is still a question of what to do with the spent fuel the process creates.
By Rob Pavey | Friday, Feb. 17, 2012
