The unit of Southern Co. said operators reached self-sustaining nuclear fission inside the reactor at Plant Vogtle. That makes the intense heat that will be used to produce steam and spin turbines to generate electricity for utilities, including JEA.
FILE - Reactor number 3 and it's cooling tower stands at Georgia Power Co.'s Plant Vogtle nuclear power plant on Jan. 20, 2023, in Waynesboro, Ga. The nuclear plant has begun splitting atoms in one of its two new reactors, Georgia Power Co. said Monday, March 6, 2023, a key step toward reaching commercial operation at the first new nuclear reactors built from scratch in decades in the United States.
A third and a fourth reactor were approved for construction at Vogtle by the Georgia Public Service Commission in 2009, and the third reactor was supposed to start generating power in 2016. The company now says Unit 3 could begin commercial operation in May or June.The cost of the third and fourth reactors was originally supposed to be $14 billion. The reactors are now supposed to cost more than $30 billion. That doesn't include $3.
Georgia Power said Unit 3 would continue startup testing to show that its cooling system and steam supply system will work at the intense heat and pressure that a nuclear reactor creates. After that, operators are supposed to link the reactor to the electrical grid and gradually raise it to full power.
Georgia Power owns a minority of the two new reactors. The remaining shares are owned by Oglethorpe Power Corp., the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia and the city of Dalton. Oglethorpe and MEAG would sell power to cooperatives and municipal utilities across Georgia, as well in Jacksonville and parts of Alabama and the Florida Panhandle.
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