Stan Wise, chairman of the Georgia Public Service Commission, welcomed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's vote on new reactors at Southern Company's Vogtle plant as bringing "certainty" to a project that is "$2 billion in the ground and $13 billion to go."
The project structure Georgia Power and its parent, Southern Company, have set up, with Shaw as constructor and Westinghouse as nuclear vendor under contracts specifying schedule and budget, is vital to ensuring there are no cost overruns.
Overrruns occurred in the 1980s when Georgia Power built Vogtle-1 and -2, he said.
