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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...

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...

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...

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. has asked power regulators in Georgia for permission to increase the budget for its share of two new reactors under construction at Plant Vogtle. In a progress report filed with the Georgia Public Service Commission Thursday, the company asked for approval of a $381 million capital cost...

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"...

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...

Southern Company has released this latest quarterly update of the construction progress of Units 3 and 4. (Please visit the site to view this video) Video Transcript Joe Washington One year ago this landscape began to reveal America's first nuclear facilities to be built in 30 years. And...

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...

As the number of workers building two new units at the Vogtle nuclear plant in Georgia has grown to 2,300, Southern Co. noted Thursday that 40 percent of them have served in the U.S. armed services. "Veterans continue to be strong candidates for jobs on the Vogtle 3 and 4 project, as the cultures...

Southern Co. disclosed Friday that a dispute surrounding licensing delays and design changes to new reactors at Plant Vogtle has moved from mediation to a U.S. District Court. Westinghouse and a Shaw Group subsidiary claim that the reactors' owners should pay for $600 million in costs associated...

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...

Southern Co. has released new photos from the third quarter of this year at its Vogtle nuclear plant in Georgia, where it is building two new AP1000 reactors. Progress continues on support facilities and the "nuclear islands" for both units under the shadow of the heavy-lift derrick crane that...

Unit 1 at Southern Co.'s Vogtle nuclear plant in Georgia powered down over the weekend for a scheduled refueling outage. "Vogtle unit 1 marked its 25th year of safe, reliable operations in May of this year. Our constant dedication to the maintenance of this facility is what allows milestones...

The Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) voted 5-0 to approve Georgia Power's spending on Plant Vogtle units 3 and 4 for the period including July 1, 2011 through Dec. 31, 2011. The construction costs of Vogtle units 3 and 4 are monitored by the PSC via monthly filings and construction monitoring...

Testing has begun on a major component in the construction of two new nuclear units at Plant Vogtle 3 and 4 - a 560-foot tall heavy lift derrick, one of the biggest cranes in the world. The derrick, which will be used to move large pieces at the site of the first new nuclear units built in the United...

In a $3 billion deal announced Monday, Chicago Bridge and Iron will purchase The Shaw Group, which holds construction contracts for four new reactors at the Vogtle and V.C. Summer nuclear plants. Chicago Bridge and Iron is also at work at those sites, holding contracts to weld the steel containment vessels...

Final approval of an $8.3 billion loan guarantee for the construction of two new reactors at Plant Vogtle in Georgia won't materialize until the end of the year, at the earliest, Department of Energy officials told House members Thursday. In a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee...

The following Southern Company video details the latest progress in the construction of Units 3 and 4 at Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant. The 2,200 construction workers have made considerable progress since last quarters update. As the video below details, turbine island components are arriving including...

A trade organization representing 70 percent of the U.S. power industry awarded Southern Co. its highest honor Monday for the new reactors at Plant Vogtle. The Edison Electric Institute gave Southern the EEI Edison Award for distinguished leadership, innovation and its contribution to the advancement...

A number of C-level leadership changes Southern Co. will place a new vice president at Southern Nuclear, the company announced Thursday. Leigh Davis Perry will replace John L. Pemberton as senior vice president and general counsel for Southern Company operations and Southern Nuclear, which operates the...

Construction is behind at Southern Co's Plant Vogtle in Georgia and the company has entered a dispute over who should pay for $400 million in unanticipated costs, utility executives said Wednesday. Southern initially planned on finishing the construction of its first new reactor in April of 2016...