New nuclear reactor comes online in Georgia after years of delays 

Sad that nuclear power has been so stigmatized. It’s by far the most enviormentally friendly high-yield power generation method.

Now if we could just get South Texas Nuclear Project back on track.

A typical nuclear power plant produces about 30 tons of used fuel per year. A similar sized coal-fired power plant produces 300,000 tons of coal ash per year.

the fact that nuclear reactors are being built in this country again is pretty huge. More nuclear plants means less need to rely on dirty coal.

Can’t believe they actually did it

We need more nuclear power, and ultimately fission/fusion power! It is the solution to the energy problem.

I worked on this project for 8 years. Great experience!

as an employee in the energy industry i feel obligated to inform everyone that in 30 years the workforce has completely changed and so has the technology that goes into the manufacturing processes. In conclusion whoever made these reactors it was probably their employees first time building one and there could have been improvements made to al older design that involves a new manufacturing process.

From $14 billion to $35 billion. Somebody's pockets got well lined.

Congratulations Georgia. Thank you for powering through all of these challenges to give us this.

I delivered a crane there 12 years ago. Seen this and jaw dropped. It wasn't even running until now?! Wow.

Go Georgia

They didn't mention this, but Georgia rate payers have been front loading the cost of this project for years, including all of the cost over runs. It's a big scam that allows the monopoly electric utility to continue to raise rates on customers due to their own negligence. It's things like this that make voting for your PSC which sets rates and allows increases so important. The monopoly electric utility should be non profit. No monopoly should be a profit driven company that provides any kind of public utility.

The clownish media never asks nuclear scientists or construction engineers, they ask the "environmentalist journalist" with the rose painting in the background who exaggerates the problems.

much cheaper electricity, hopefully we will see cheaper electric bills!

Delays and massive cost increase is not something US specific, it is the same issue with new nuclear reactors everywhere. Long delay, cost increase multiple times of the initially expected cost. Flamanville in France, actual delay is 12+ years, cost increase from EUR 3.3 billion to EUR 19 billion. The French Court of Audit estimates the electricity production costs at 110 to 120 €/MWh, 3-4 times what competitive base-load generation would cost. Olkiluoto in Finland: 12 years delay, cost increased from EUR 3 billion to EUR 11 billion. Hinkley Point C in England: cost increase from EUR 19 billion to EUR 50 billion. None of the recently added nuclear power plants is competitive.

How is this good for the people when as soon as this thing is online Georgia Power increases rates TWICE!!!!!????

loooong overdue. we need 100 more units/reactors right now

Has there ever been a nuclear facility that came in under cost?

This actually rather impressive and something that makes me quite happy to see.

Modern nuclear reactor designs are the key to reliable and environmentally friendly power generation for industrial needs.

We used to be able to build nuclear power plants in 5 years for a few hundred million.

1 gram of deuterium - Tritium = 10000 barrels of oil.

Keep building them 🗣️🗣️

We also need to legalize re-useing/recycling the fuel waste to reduce the nuclear waste total, and vastly diminish the half life it is dangerous.

Sadly as of this past December, the overrun costs have been passed on to ratepayers, rather than coming out of power company profits

+1. How about we have 50 more built in the next 10 years. That's going to be one hell of an improvement for the environment.

As a person who worked in Solar Energy, nuclear energy is the long term solution. Even in solar we are running out of sand and not to mention our coating of chemicals for the glass itself 🙈

My submarine USS Augusta ram on original nuclear fuel from 1982 until the sun was decommissioned in 2008. Never in its entire life did it have to refuel. Nuclear power is an unbelievably clean and efficient power source if the waste is managed properly.

At 35 billion for 1 plant thats going to drastically limit the number of new plants even though its the best power source

Too bad vc summer 3 and 4 didn’t get completed. Back in the 70 and 80 the cost overruns where 500-800% and they have cheapest rates available. Cost over runs is difficult during construction however durning operations it’s ok.

Will this plant be supplying the Augusta area?

30 million Mwh a year is enough for 1M homes? So a home in Georgia uses 30 Mwh a year? In the last year I've only used 0.6Mwh. It'd be a lot easier to get people to cut their use than spend all that money on building a nuclear power plant. It always seems like these nuclear plants take far longer than expected and cost far more.

14 billion turned into 35 billion? May as well have left things the way they are. How long will it take to pay off that debt?

Hiroshima and Nagasaki both experienced nuclear bombs yet they still have healthy populations, with no more genetic deformations than anywhere else.

Think about how many trucks it takes to plant one windmill, raw materials to producing electricity. Climate impact ?

We need 1000 reactors to provide cheap power 24/7. We have insane power requirements coming up

I am so for nuclear power, but I wouldn’t have chosen to designate any reactor as “reactor number four”

VERY, VERY, VERY ENCOURAGING!! This is really good news! I find that people are learning to overcome their very irrational fears surrounding this literal miracle technology.

7 years late and 21 billion. I'm not anti-nuclear at all, but if you are going to be the "well acshually if we weren't so afraid of nuclear, blah, blah blah, renewables sucks, blah, blah blah" guy, that's a damning indictment of nuclear power.

I'm so glad we could have a talking head talking to a reporter about nuclear energy. You could have interviewed real experts in nuclear energy and the business and political aspects.

Nuclear Power and Climate Change Even if one assumes that nuclear power is safe it is so risky financially that safety is moot. Three Mile Island In March 1979, Unit 2 at the Three Mile Island nuclear station suffered a partial core meltdown. It was the most significant accident in the history of American commercial nuclear power. The accident taught us two important lessons. 1. Nuclear power is safe for people. Inadequate regulation, faulty design, imprudent operations and several coincidences all contributed to causing the accident. Bottom line - the containment held. No one was hurt. There was no catastrophic radiation leak. Damage awards were small. 2. Nuclear power is extremely dangerous for investors. John Graham, the Treasurer of General Public Utilities (owner of TMI) wrote in Journal of Commercial Bank lending - May 1980, “The discussion of whether to recommend a moratorium on new nuclear plants in the Report by the President’s Commission on Three Mile Island is somewhat irrelevant. I do not believe that there is a board of directors of an electric utility in the country which would now approve a nuclear plant as a new initiative.” Why? Overnight, a billion dollars in revenue producing assets turned into a gigantic, unfunded liability. People were safe. Investors were not.

And mine and everyone else’s power bills have started to go up exponentially to pay for that overpriced pile of crap.

I believe Palo Verde in Arizona was last one to be built

Carbon is plant food, plants are good

I think Plant Vogtle was very risky to build since it was designed as they went along with a "green" workforce and no economies of scale. Left out a few things. We should be building at least one hundred AP1000s now, more research reactors, and upgrade our grid to keep up with the need for more electricity on the grid. We also need massive REE co-operatives with storage, refining, and magnet development to compete directly with the CCP. No one died from the actual TMI & Fukushima meltdowns. And folks got a dose rate equivalent to a few x-rays. Most folks get exposed to more natural background doses than that, depending on where they live. LNT is BS. Our bodies need some radiation. Chernobyl had a terrible design and no containment: thanks USSR. We have the tech to recycle all of the spent fuel and get decades worth of energy out of it. It is just not economical yet versus buying new Uranium. PVs, windmills, and batteries will never provide enough energy for the USA to remain an economic power. Git er dun!☢☢☢☢☢☢☢☢☢☢

Things can take longer and then require more money to keep people on the job longer.

Im going to take a personal field trip to see it

B.S.! It's meant for making weapons-grade material not efficient energy! Solar, wind, water and MSRs are healthier for the world and everything in it!

this should be a lesson on US exceptionalism, or the lack of it. lack of qualified contractors, cost overruns, general incompetence. the US needs to pick up the pace. fission power would not be so expensive if every plant were not a one off. they need to get modular production and quantity to get installation costs down. renewables can not meet the future demand. also there needs to be initiative to get recycling program going so fuel use can be optimized. nuclear is a good, clean energy source. its development and deployment in the US has been a cluster

There is no more reactors under construction right now. Renewables are taking off big time now.

I was waiting for good news

about time!

Good luck fellas ❤

California needs to hop on the nuclear power train, especially with the insane advancements in Earthquake proofing and scram ability of new reactors. But PG&E has a deathgrip and likes their high power prices i guess

Im all for Nuclear. Always have been, always will be.

Awesome

Most excellent

Georgia required billions of dollars in federal welfare and other people's money in order to build this and the electrical company is already asking for higher electricity rates to pay for the increased costs.

2:44 Nuclear is actually the most popular form of electricity production in the United States, according to the most recent polling, with about 75% of the population supporting its expansion. That'sa lot more popular that something like coal or even most renewables manage these days, according to the likes of Gallup or the Pew Research Center.

And how much is it costing for a KWH?

Is my power rate coming down?

So this reporter was 100% useless. 1. CBI bid for the job, and went bankrupt. Westinghouse designed the reactor, and went bankrupt. 2. Fluor took over the job, but did a terrible job and got kicked out. 3. US Gov loosed up a bit with regulation along the way. 5. Bechtel came and finished the job for price premium.

It would have been nice to hear about some of the safety features on that plant, given that we've now had over 4 decades of research between this plant and the last one we building in the US in 1977. But no. We had to hear about muh climate change, as if that's any sort of meaningful problem. Supplying cheap, reliable energy is a problem. Doing it safely is a problem. We could talk about those issues. We could talk about why no one else is willing to try investing in another nuclear power plant. They're afraid of getting sandbagged by the red tape brigade like what happened with TransCanada and the Keystone XL pipeline. No one with any money is going to take the chance that some know-nothing bureaucrats from some "progressive" administration are going to destroy their project midway through the process. That's a great way to waste billions. Gov't idiots can get away with that garbage because the DOJ and Congress are corrupt, but you can't get away with it in the private sector. You people should be celebrating, but you report this like it's a funeral. The last thing you want is prosperity in this country.

This makes my day 🎉😊

Open up a repository to safely store the spent fuel. Yucca Mountain.

$1.16 per kilowatt 🤔

Yay!

More Nuclear!

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I Love it .... Guess what ... if we don’t start thinking outside the Box... we will bake in the sun til we die..

So the site is about 3,500 MW capacity? Why not just tell us how much electricity it produces

Because Americans have failed to reduce personal and corporate carbon use, we have no choice but to use proven non carbon energy. Americans are voting to build many more like this.

Just in time to bring my solar online and pull the GA Power meter off the house. See ya cost over runs.....

At 35billion divided amongst 1million homes over 30 years is $97 a month. These "3 owners" dont stand to make much on this investment. After paying to keep and maintain the place, and disposal of certain materials also environmental cost and not being able to sell directly to the customer. i dont see these guys winning here.

This is why the future of nuclear is likely to depend on smaller, factory built systems. There's got to better quality control of the process to prevent these delays and cost overruns. To be certain, large construction projects like this have been plagued with poor oversight and corrupt contractors for about as long as power plants have been built. Some have been so messed up they were never finished. GE is building compact nuclear power plants that can be mass produced and installed without all of these problems.

There are nuclear technologies that generate much less waste. And some could actually use present day waste as fuel!!!

Nice!

We need more Nuclear power plants. CO2 is very bad.

Keep building them

Nuclear is on its death bed as we can build and commission 20+ solar + battery storage power plants to far exceed the energy generation of a single nuclear plant, for a small fraction of the cost and time as nuclear. This Vogel plant proves it.

Billions of dollars overall for what ? There own profits ans tax payer expenses wtf big corporations win as we loose everything

Nuclear energy is key to cutting carbon emissions! In CA, just one reactor (Diablo Canyon) provides 10% of our electricity!

awesome! i love to see our nuclear power sector get developed :)

One million homes is not much electricity considering the cost of building this power plant.

Finally

Hopefully India or Chine will build better nuclear reactors so we can build them cheaper in U.S.

The most expensive and most heavily subsidized energy production method we have. Hardly a win for anyone but the plant operator.

Usa needs the Small-Micro Reactors to be a thing. they need to be able to be more used.

Lets gooooooooooooo

Perpetual motion - stars ✨

Modular reactors that are designed once and deployed repeatedly are the future of nuclear power production. There is a lot of potential to reduce both construction cycle and installed cost per MW. We will never satisfy the majority of our voracious power appetite from wind or solar, it is unrealistic to believe that 'renewable' energy sources will provide reliable, base load capacity - yet we must dramatically reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. So that leaves nuclear as the logical solution.

BAHAHAHA Old AP1000 Pressure Cookers. Outdated foolish reactor design.

things always go wrong - the only bad thing - particularly with less optimal designs

35 billion could have built 35,000 megawatts of wind. You only got 3500 megawatts of nuclear out of this project so that's 10 times more expensive than wind

*Now we need 1600 more smaller reactors to charge those 150,000,000 Electric cars in the next 15 years!*

For that much money, it is way cheaper for solar panels and wind mills. $35 Billion!

This guy is telling me grass is green and water is wet, HE knows nothing!

Trying to make more money from public free money by delaying it with no accountability is nothing new

Nuclear is the only form of green energy that can scale