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Nuclear construction delays cost real money

Nuclear construction delays cost real money

We don’t get tired of showing this photo, taken May 22, 2014, of construction of the Summer reactors–indicating just how far construction still has to go….

That didn’t take long. On Tuesday, we reported that SCANA announced at least a year’s delayin the construction of its Summer reactors. Apparently all the money from those six rate increases already imposed on South Carolina ratepayers–and the…

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Same old story: Summer reactors delayed, overbudget

Same old story: Summer reactors delayed, overbudget

The Summer nuclear project, May 2014. Still a long ways–and a lot more rate increases–to go.

A few years ago, back before the nuclear “renaissance” had fizzled down to construction of four southern reactors taking advantage of utility-friendly Public Service Commissions (PSCs) that allow the utilities to treat their customers as private banks, there was a lot of boasting in the industry that this…

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