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Old 11-16-2018, 10:19 AM   #45 (permalink)
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Pro Nuke power people should read about these cost overruns.

They broke Westinghouse!

How Westinghouse, Symbol of U.S. Nuclear Power, Collapsed

03/30/2017
https://www.powermag.com/how-westing...d/?printmode=1
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Crippled by financial setbacks stemming from the half-built AP1000 reactor projects in Georgia and South Carolina, Westinghouse Electric Co., a company with a storied legacy symbolic of American nuclear power, has taken the desperate step of filing for bankruptcy protection.

While owners of the two nuclear construction projects are monitoring the situation, the development could mean their completion is uncertain.

The U.S. company owned by Japan’s Toshiba Corp. on March 29 filed for voluntary petitions under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, saying it is seeking to undertake “a strategic restructuring as a result of certain financial and construction challenges in its U.S. AP1000 power plant projects.”
Three pages of horror.

How the Vogtle Nuclear Expansion’s Costs Escalated

09/24/2018
https://www.powermag.com/how-the-vog...sts-escalated/

The saga continues.

Oglethorpe Agrees to Continue Vogtle Nuclear Project with Conditions; Final Vote Still to Come
09/24/2018
https://www.powermag.com/breaking-ow...clear-project/
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The Plant Vogtle expansion is the only U.S. nuclear power plant project currently under construction. A similar project to add two AP1000 reactors to the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station in South Carolina was abandoned last year. Only one new nuclear unit, Unit 2 at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in Tennessee—POWER’s Top Plant for 2018—has come online in the U.S. since Watts Bar Unit 1 entered service in 1996.
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