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Mon, 2017-02-27 12:24 — Maeryn Obley

A view into Unit 4 at the Alvin W. Vogtle generating station in Georgia. The complex plans to use AP1000 reactors from Westinghouse. Credit via Georgia Power

Image: A view into Unit 4 at the Alvin W. Vogtle generating station in Georgia. The complex plans to use AP1000 reactors from Westinghouse. Credit via Georgia Power

nytimes.com - February 18th 2017 - Diane Cardwell

This was supposed to be America’s nuclear century.

The Three Mile Island meltdown was two generations ago. Since then, engineers had developed innovative designs to avoid the kinds of failures that devastated Fukushima in Japan. 

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Wed, 2017-04-05 18:53 — Kathy Gilbeaux

utilitydive.com - by Peter Maloney - April 5, 2017

Nuclear developer Westinghouse Electric filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on March 29 and consequences continue to reverberate throughout the industry and its parent company, Toshiba. 

Even as Toshiba was trying to distance itself from Westinghouse, it is being pulled closer to the nuclear sector by being forced to buy out Engie’s 40% stake in a NuGeneration Ltd., a U.K. nuclear joint venture.

Marketwatch reports NuGen is attempting to build three reactors in the U.K. using Westinghouse's design, but the bankruptcy throws those plans into question . . .

 . . . The bankruptcy filing is also creating problems and uncertainty for the U.S. utilities that had hired Westinghouse to finish their nuclear projects — namely, Southern Co.’s Vogtle plant in Georgia, and the V.C. Summer plant in South Carolina being built by Santee Cooper and SCANA.

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