Development concerns plague nuclear reactors beneath development at Plant Vogtle

This is a column by Opinion Editor Adam Van Brimmer.

When it comes to a nuclear power plant, a meltdown is to be averted at all costs.

At Plant Vogtle, it is the expenditures, not an overheated reactor main, that are triggering a meltdown.

A month has passed because Ga Public Services Fee staffers testified to a disturbing slew of producing flaws on 1 of the two new reactors below development at the plant along the Savannah River. They utilised phrases this sort of as “a little bit of a shock” and a “pretty significant deal” to describe the issues they located.

The listening to came on the heels of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Fee launching a specific inspection into development challenges at the reactor.

Several Georgians skipped this news, what with summer months holidays and shortened operate months due to Juneteenth and the Fourth of July holiday seasons. One more cause for inattention is that the upcoming Vogtle-unique hearings won’t be held right until Oct. Out of smartphone calendar sight, out of head.

An aerial view shows the two new reactors under construction at Plant Vogtle. Unit 3 is on the left and unit 4 is on the right.

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But as the PSC fulfills for an administrative perform session Thursday, the commissioners have to have to be chatting about Vogtle. The Oct hearings will be part of a evaluation that determines how much of the Vogtle cash prices can be passed on to householders and other end users. 

The PSC needs to admit that

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