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On March 6, 2023, Vogtle Unit 3 reached criticality for the first time. The unit was connected to the grid on April 1 and entered commercial operation on July 31. [63] [64] [52] [65] On May 2, 2023, Georgia Power announced that Vogtle Unit 4 had completed hot functional testing which confirmed that the reactor was ready for its first fuel load ...
Operator says at no time were employees or the community in danger. There is no timeline for it to return to service.
The expansion project to add Units 3 and 4 was first authorized in 2009 and has been hit with multiple delays and cost overruns ever since. Plant Vogtle Unit 4 nuclear reactor reaches 100% power ...
The construction of Plant Vogtle’s Units 3 and 4 has been mired in budget overruns and delayed for years. When it comes online, Plant Vogtle’s Unit 3 will be the first new operating nuclear ...
On April 1, 2023, Georgia Power announced that Vogtle Unit 3 had made a connection to the grid and began supplying electricity for the first time, [82] and on May 29, Unit 3 reached its maximum designed power output. [83] Hot functional testing on Vogtle Unit 4 was completed on May 1, 2023. [84] It went into commercial operation in March 2024. [85]
The initial plan was to bring Unit 3 online in 2016 and Unit 4 the year after. Unit 3 began producing electricity in April. The project has cost more than double the projected $14 billion.
Plant Vogtle’s Unit 4 is now supposed to start commercial operation sometime in the second quarter of 2024, or between April 1 and June 30. Second new Georgia reactor begins splitting atoms in ...
Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Unit 3 & 4 [4] Nuclear power station United States: Burke County, Georgia: 600 ft (180 m) 2022 Walsum power plant [5] Coal power station Germany: Duisburg: 594 ft (181 m) 2008 Bełchatów Power Station, new unit [6] Coal power station Poland: Belchatow: 591 ft (180 m) 2011 THTR-300: Nuclear power plant Germany ...