Vogtle Electric Generating Plant
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 Location of Plant Vogtle in Georgia (U.S. state)
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| Official name | Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant |
| Country | United States |
| Location | Burke County, Georgia, |
| Coordinates | 33°8′36″N 81°45′38″W / 33.14333°N 81.76056°WCoordinates: 33°8′36″N 81°45′38″W / 33.14333°N 81.76056°W |
| Status | Operational |
| Commission date | Unit 1: June 1, 1987 Unit 2: May 20, 1989 |
| Construction cost | $8.87 billion (Units 1 & 2) |
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Georgia Power (45.7%) OPC (30%) MEAG (22.7%) City of Dalton (1.6%) |
| Operator(s) | Southern Nuclear |
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| Reactor type | 4-loop PWR (active), AP1000 (in construction) |
| Reactor supplier | Westinghouse |
| Cooling source | Savannah River |
| Cooling towers | 4 (two in construction) |
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| Units operational | 2 × 1215 MW |
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General Electric (Units 1 & 2) |
| Units under const. | 2 × 1117 MW |
| Capacity factor | 86% |
| Annual output | 18,297 GW·h |
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The Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, also known as Plant Vogtle, is a 2-unit nuclear power plant located in Burke County, near Waynesboro, Georgia, in the southeastern United States. It is named after the Alabama Power and Southern Company board chairman, Alvin Vogtle.
Each unit has a Westinghouse pressurized water reactor (PWR), with a General Electric steam turbine and electric generator. Units 1 and 2 were completed in 1987 and 1989, respectively. Each unit is capable of producing approximately 1,200 MW of electricity when online, for a combined capacity of 2,400 MW. Southern Nuclear lists the capacity as 1,215 MW each, for a combined output of 2,430 MW. The twin natural-draft cooling towers are 548 ft (167 m) tall and provide cooling to the plant's main condensers. Four smaller mechanical draft cooling towers provide service water cooling to auxiliary safety and non safety components and remove the decay heat from the reactor when the plant is offline. One natural-draft tower and two service water towers serve each unit. In 2009, the NRC renewed the licenses for both units for an additional 20 years, to the 2040s.
Construction of two additional AP1000 reactors (3 and 4) are underway. Natural-draft type cooling towers were also selected and the two new cooling towers will also be nearly 550 feet tall. The certified construction & capital costs incurred by Georgia Power for these two new units were originally 4,418 million which escalated to an estimated $5,440 million ($7,745 million including financing costs) according to the Sixtenth Semi-annual Vogtle Construction Monitoring Report. This last report blames the latest increase of costs to Contractor not completing work as scheduled. Though the utility suffered some of the cost increases resulting from the delay, protections in the EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) agreement largely insulate the utility from these cost increases. Upon completion of units 3 and 4, Vogtle will become the largest nuclear station in the United States and one of the largest power plants of any fuel type nationwide in terms of annual energy output.
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