According to the Public Service Commission of Georgia (United States), the units 3 and 4 of the Vogtle nuclear expansion project are unlikely to be commissioned in November 2021 and November 2022. In addition, the cost of the two units will likely exceed its current U$17.1bn target. In April 2020, Georgia Power (part of the Southern Company group) completed the placement of the containment vessel top head at its Vogtle Unit 4 reactor project in Waynesboro, Georgia (United States). The group had lifted the Unit 3 containment vessel top in early 2019. With this milestone, the Vogtle nuclear expansion project was 84% complete.
The Vogtle nuclear expansion project consists in adding two AP1000 reactors of 1,117 MW each (1,250 MW gross) on the site of the Vogtle nuclear power plant (currently composed of two 1,229 MW gross reactors commissioned in 1987 and 1989). The project is led by Georgia Power (45.7% of the plant), Oglethorpe Power Corporation (OGP, 30%), the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (22.7%) and held by Dalton Utilities (1.6%). The project has been hit by years of delays and costs escalations. Construction was initially led by Westinghouse, which filed for bankruptcy in March 2017. However, construction has been moving forward uninterrupted even since then and the units are scheduled to be commissioned in November 2021 and November 2022, respectively.
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