Georgia Power, a subsidiary of the US power utility Southern Company, has installed a nuclear reactor vessel inside the Vogtle-4 AP-1000 nuclear power project near Waynesboro in Georgia (United States).
The Vogtle nuclear power plant, jointly owned by Georgia Power (45.7%), Oglethorpe Power Corporation (30%), the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (22.7%) and Dalton Utilities (1.6%), currently has two operating pressurized water reactors manufactured by Westinghouse and rated 1,215 MW each, which were commissioned in 1987 and 1989. As per the expansion project, Georgia Power and Southern Nuclear will build two new AP1000 units, Vogtle-3 and Vogtle-4, rated 1,117 MW each. Georgia Power schedules the Vogtle-3 and Vogtle-4 units to reach commercial operation in November 2021 and November 2022, respectively. The construction has been moving forward uninterrupted even since the Westinghouse bankruptcy filing in March 2017.
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