Southern Co. and its partners have much to show for their work at Plant Vogtle in 2011, with progress evident both at the site and in the regulatory process necessary to complete the $14 billion project.
Southern recently released this video outlining the work completed in the fourth quarter and throughout the year. Highlights include progress on containment vessel fabrication, the completion of massive piping from the Westinghouse AP1000 units to a cooling tower, the construction of a wide range of support infrastructure and the issuance of a Final Safety Evaluation Report by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Between the units, crews have completed the track for a heavy-lift derrick crane that will install sections of each reactor, and they’re presently assembling the crane itself. To see more of what the 1,800 workers on-site have built so far, you can view a number of high-quality construction photographs released earlier this month.