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Scana and its South Carolina Electric and Gas subsidiary continue to make headway in building two new reactors at the V.C. Summer nuclear plant, reporting to state regulators that the project is on budget but has seen some milestones drop behind schedule. Project spending through the end of this year...

Westinghouse Electric Company and State Nuclear Power Technology Corp. (SNPTC) announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to establish a partnership that would enable the two companies to work together to develop a Small Modular Reactor (SMR) standard design, based on the Westinghouse...

China's nuclear industry is wasting no time in wooing South Africa as it considers building several new reactors to meet its expanding energy needs. The country's government will make a decision on whether to move forward with a 9,600 megawatt project this year, Public Enterprise Minister Malusi...

Construction at Georgia's Plant Vogtle, where Southern Co. is leading a project to add two Westinghouse AP1000 reactors, continued to make visible progress in April. That work will continue unabated thanks to an appeals court decision Tuesday rejecting a suit by nine environmental groups opposed...

The companies building the first AP1000 reactors in China announced a joint venture Monday that will further their cooperation and potentially encourage cross-border supplier networks for the reactor's equipment. Westinghouse and State Nuclear Power Technology Corp. said the joint venture, called...

Duke Energy will no longer pursue licensing for two new reactors at the Shearon Harris nuclear plant near Raleigh, N.C., the company announced Thursday. “The Harris site is well-suited for new nuclear generation and has not been eliminated from our long-term consideration as a site to expand our...

Federal officials will hold a conference with South Carolina Electric & Gas next week to address questions surrounding rebar in the foundations of new reactors at the V.C. Summer nuclear plant. Following an inspection in February, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission asserted that the spacing and anchor...

Crews have lowered the top section of the containment vessel for one of the world's first Generation III AP1000 reactors at China's Haiyang nuclear plant. The 659-ton containment vessel top head was placed Friday morning at the China Power Investment Corp. plant in Shandong Province, according...

Progress Energy's application to build two new reactors near Gainesville, Fla., will continue to move forward after a regulatory body dismissed an appeal by environmental groups. The Nuclear Information and Resource Service and the Ecology Party of Florida had challenged the final environmental impact...

In the days following completion of the concrete basemat for unit 3 at Plant Vogtle, Southern Co. released more photos documenting the new reactors taking shape at the Georgia nuclear facility. Taken over the course of this month, they show the enormous footprint of the unit 3 cooling tower, more...

Westinghouse has emerged as the early favorite to build two new reactors in the Czech Republic, although Rosatom remains in the running as Czech utility CEZ continues to study their bids. On Monday, Westinghouse announced that a preliminary ranking placed its proposal to build two AP1000 reactors at...

On the heels of a similar milestone at V.C. Summer, Plant Vogtle recently completed the concrete basemat for the first of its new AP1000 reactors. The 7,000-cubic-yard concrete pour at unit 3 took 41 hours and was completed late last week, according to a Southern Co. release. "This historic...

At about 10 a.m., Monday, crews completed the basemat for the first new unit at the V.C. Summer nuclear plant – a milestone for the reactor that will be among the first to come on line in the U.S. since Watts Bar 1 opened in 1996. The 6-foot-thick basemat serves as the foundation for the reactor's...

Despite a lengthened schedule , significant progress is evident at the construction site of two new Westinghouse AP1000 reactors at Southern Co.'s Vogtle nuclear plant. The following photos, taken by Southern in January and February, show the project's recently started cooling tower, containment...

Southern Co.'s head of nuclear development told an energy conference Thursday that negotiations on a Department of Energy loan guarantee for new reactors at Plant Vogtle have progressed, and that a deal could emerge by mid year. The guarantee received preliminary approval in 2010. Joseph "Buzz"...

In a video circulated among employees Tuesday, Westinghouse CEO Daniel Roderick announced the company will cut jobs amounting to roughly five percent of its global workforce. Westinghouse had hired about 5,000 people over the last five years as dozens of new nuclear plants were proposed in the U.S. and...

By the end of the year, Chinese companies will begin international marketing of a 1,400 megawatt power reactor based largely on the Westinghouse AP1000. In return for the right to sell the AP1000 in China, Westinghouse agreed to help Chinese firms use its generation III pressurized water reactor as a...

Westinghouse has sweetened the pot in its bid to build two AP1000 reactors in the Czech Republic, announcing agreements this week that would source the majority of steel for the project from Czech suppliers. Westinghouse, Areva and a Rosatom-led consortium submitted bids to CEZ to expand the Temelin...

A Duke executive recently told state power regulators that the utility remains committed to building two new AP1000 reactors in South Carolina, but low demand growth will likely delay the project. Licensing activities for the new nuclear plant in Cherokee County, S.C., are ongoing, the Charlotte Business...

A problem with a rail shipment recently held up delivery of a reactor pressure vessel en route to Georgia's Plant Vogtle construction site, but Southern Co. maintains that it won't delay the project. Southern is leading a group of utilities building two new Westinghouse AP1000 reactors at the...

Utilities building two new reactors at Plant Vogtle will ask for a second extension to complete negotiations on an $8.3 billion loan guarantee. A Southern Co. executive confirmed the move during a recent meeting with state power regulators, the Augusta Chronicle reported. The Department of Energy conditionally...

Completion of the first new reactor at Plant Vogtle may be pushed back into 2017, Southern Co. executives told Georgia regulators Tuesday, although the utility has yet to reach an agreement on the schedule with its contractors. Speaking before the Georgia Public Service Commission, Southern Nuclear construction...

Class is in session for a new workforce of plant operators who will run two AP1000 reactors under construction at Plant Vogtle in Georgia. More than 100 reactor operators will be trained over the next year and a half, and the project schedule calls for training enough operators to run both reactors before...

Workers building new reactors at Georgia's Plant Vogtle have put in 10 million hours since the project received an early site permit in 2009, Southern Co. announced Tuesday. The milestone follows visible progress on the turbine islands, cooling towers and nuclear islands for the two Westinghouse...

Southern Company has just issued their 2012 3 rd Quarter Video Update of the construction progress at Units 3 and 4 at the Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant. (Please visit the site to view this video) Video Transcript Joe Washington Looking in every direction it's clear that progress is steady...