SRS Watch, March 13, 2019: VC Summer AP1000 “Combined Operating License” (COL) termination for halted units 2 and 3 – not something you’ll see every day! This is the final nail in the coffin of new reactors in South Carolina & the project won’t be revived (despite some rhetoric we still see about that in South Carolina). Both new nuclear construction projects in the state – VC Summer & plutonium fuel (MOX) at DOE’s Savannah River Site – now officially dead as the government and nuclear industry can’t manage large, expensive, complex nuclear construction projectsThe US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has notified the holders of the Combined Operating Licenses for the VC Summer units 2 & 3 inn South Carolina that the COLs have been terminated. The termination letters were posted in ADAMS on March 13, 2019. This is the official end of the bungled, costly project (a waste of $11+ billion).
NRC letter to SCE&G terminating COLs for VC Summer units 2 & 3
https://adamswebsearch2.nrc.gov/webSearch2/main.jsp?AccessionNumber=ML18198A299
NRC letter to Santee Cooper (45% partner in the project) terminating COLs, March 7, 2019:
https://adamswebsearch2.nrc.gov/webSearch2/main.jsp?AccessionNumber=ML18199A317
And, the other nuclear construction boondoggle in South Carolina – the plutonium fuel MOX project – had its “construction authorization” terminated by the NRC on Feb. 8, 2019. See SRS Watch news release on that:
https://www.srswatch.org/uploads/2/7/5/8/27584045/srs_watch_on_license_termination_feb_11_2019.pdf
The MOX boondoggle merits in-depth investigations by US Government agencies, federal attorneys and Congress – just how deep does the fraud, waste, abuse and mismanagement go????