Virgil C. Summer nuclear power plant

Virgil C. Summer nuclear power plant
location
Coordinates	34 ° 15 '54 "  N , 81 ° 19' 47"  W Coordinates: 34 ° 15 '54 "  N , 81 ° 19' 47"  W.
Country:	United States
Data
Owner:	South Carolina Electric & Gas Company
Operator:	South Carolina Public Service Authority (1/3) and South Carolina Electric & Gas Company (2/3)
Project start:	March 1973
Commercial operation:	January 1, 1984
Active reactors (gross):	1 (1200 MW)
Construction discontinued (gross):	2 (2500 MW)
Energy fed in in 2015:	4.744 (2009: 6.872) GWh
Energy fed in since commissioning:	177477.044 (2009) GWh
Was standing:	2016
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

The Virgil C. Summer nuclear power plant is located near Jenkinsville , a town in Fairfield County , 20 miles northwest of Columbia , the capital of South Carolina . It uses cooling water from the Monticello reservoir.

The plant has a Westinghouse pressurized water reactor. The reactor was completely overhauled and in April 2004 the operating license was extended from 2022 to 2042 .

About two-thirds (66.7%) of the facility is owned by the operators of the South Carolina Electric & Gas Company (part of SCANA ). The remaining 33.3% is owned by the South Carolina Public Service Authority .

In December 2016 it became known that Virgil C. Summer was also affected by the Creusot Forge scandal over falsified certificates. Parts of the steam generator come from the incriminated Areva daughter.

Demolished new building of two blocks

Applications to build a second and third reactor were submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in 2006 . The owners were planning a Westinghouse reactor of the type AP1000 . In January 2010, permits for the construction and operation of a total of 14 reactors at 7 locations were issued, including Virgil C. Summer. In 2013, the construction of the two reactors began; completion was planned for 2019 and 2022. In February 2017, Westinghouse postponed the start-up date to December 2020. At the end of March 2017, Toshiba sent Westinghouse-Nuclear into bankruptcy. One of the reasons for the financial difficulties was the cost overruns in the new construction projects VC Summer and Vogtle .

At the end of July 2017, the operators of the power plant made public that the completion of the two reactors under construction was suspended because completion would not be profitable. The construction costs were put at more than 25 billion dollars at this point (originally planned were 11.5 billion dollars). The company Santee Cooper, which has a 45% stake in the power plant, stated that its proportionate construction costs had risen from the originally planned $ 5.1 billion to $ 11.4 billion. By abandoning construction, the company's customers could save approximately $ 7 billion versus completing the blocks. By 2021, the power plant could have used tax breaks introduced by the Bush administration for the construction of new nuclear power plants. In 2017, it appears that the units will no longer be operational by 2021. Previously, a $ 1.4 billion public levy on taxpayers had already been introduced to enable completion.

By the time construction was abandoned , it was about 40 percent complete and $ 9 billion had been spent.

Data of the reactor blocks

Reactor block	Reactor type	net power	gross power	start of building	Network synchronization	Commercialization of essential operation	switching off processing
Virgil C. Summer-1	Pressurized water reactor	966 MW	1200 MW	03/21/1973	11/16/1982	01/01/1984	(Planned for 2042)
Virgil C. Summer-2	Pressurized water reactor	1117 MW	1250 MW	03/09/2013	Construction canceled
Virgil C. Summer-3	Pressurized water reactor	1117 MW	1250 MW	11/02/2013	Construction canceled

Others

The Carolinas-Virginia Tube Reactor (CVTR), which operated nearby from 1964 to 1966 , has been demolished since 2007.

Web links

• www.eia.doe.gov: South Carolina State Energy Profile
• www.nrc.gov:
  • Unit 1
  • Issued Combined Licenses for Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, Units 2 and 3
• VOA : What Is the Future of US Nuclear Power Industry? (August 14, 2017)

Footnotes

1. ↑ [1]
2. ^ So towards the end of the reign of George W. Bush
3. ↑ www.nrc.gov , PDF (full text)
4. ↑ https://nrcpublicblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/ml17009a275.pdf
5. ↑ EPC Contract Awarded For Proposed Virgil C Summer Units (eng.)
6. ↑ first concrete poured (eng.)
7. ^ Nuklearforum.ch: Delays in the USA from February 17, 2017
8. ↑ nytimes.com
9. ↑ ^{a b} S.C. utilities halt work on new nuclear reactors, dimming the prospects for a nuclear energy revival . In: Washington Post , July 31, 2017.
10. ↑ Vogtle nuke cost could top $ 25B as decision time looms . In: UtilityDIve , August 3, 2017. Retrieved August 4, 2017.
11. ↑ spiegel.de July 7, 2018: The nuclear phase-out will probably also come in the USA
12. ↑ Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "United States of America: Nuclear Power Reactors - Alphabetic" (English)