This is what failure looks like. Photo by High Flyer – of canceled, in 2017 , VC Summer nuclear reactor units 2 & 3 in foreground and unit 1 (operating) by lake in background. Customers are paying 5.6% of their bill to Dominion Energy, which took over when SCANA went bankrupt due to the project’s failure. This is one of the biggest debacles in commercial nuclear power history, all caused by incompetence, ignorance and arrogance.
The SRS Watch director will be presenting at the “Nuclear Energy Conference 2024” to be held in Prague on June 19, 2024, on the subject of “Failure of the Westinghouse AP1000 Projects in the USA.”
Tom Clements knows the subject up close as he was the main intervenor, for Friends of the Earth-US, from 2008-2019 before the South Carolina Public Service Commission. The impact of the VC Summer debacle and that of the semi-failure of the Vogtle nuclear reactor construction project dealt a self-induced blow to the nuclear power industry but the facts about this are being covered up and canceled in Europe, by the nuclear industry, regulators and the media.
Will Westinghouse repeat its failures in Europe? We’ll see who wants to know the truth about the AP1000 boondoggles here.
conference agenda:
https://nec2024.jadernaenergetika.eu/en/conference-agenda
SRS Watch presentation for 19th June 2024: Failure of the Westinghouse AP1000 Projects PPT June 9 2024