Vogtle Electric Generating Plant

If Clinch River puts down a real cost and schedule, the SMR PPAs everybody's announcing get easier to underwrite.

If not, it's Vogtle in a smaller box.

Rob LaPerle, reporting for KALB in Alexandria, Louisiana.

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And Georgia Power's nuclear uprate tariff agreement with Google, about ninety-six megawatts added at plants Hatch and Vogtle, is projected to return roughly nine hundred million dollars to all customers, subject to Public Service Commission approval.

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Okay, and then taking a high level view of the advanced nuclear sector, I mean, where do things kind of stand right now in terms of development?

Well, we've seen a lot of progress and evolving sentiment in the last few years for nuclear, particularly since Georgia Power's Vogtle units three and four were brought online.

Energy security concerns have increased, and also demand signals have changed all within that time frame.

But none of these advanced designs that we're talking about have commercialized in the US so far, and that's a key milestone.

It's why we're so excited about the Department of Energy's plutonium RFP award, but we're probably most excited about the recycling business and what that can really do to be providing pretty abundant fuel for our powerhouses going into the next decade.

We do believe that as we do get that repetition going, get those learning curves going, it should bring down time to deployment and cost to deployment.

And if you do look at the last big nuclear power facilities that were built in the United States were the Vogtle facilities, and Vogtle 4 did come down in terms of cost and time relative to Vogtle 3.

So I think that just kind of proves out that, that repeatability as well.

Mm-hmm.

So we are getting a lot of questions now from foreign counterparts about, um, what if your laws change, what if your regulations change, what if your requirements change? That is one of the things that actually happened, um, to add to the Vogtle construction delays, was that the NRC made a major regulation change after we had started building, so we had to make all those changes and account for it.

So countries are wondering, w-what happens to us if there's a change and you can't provide on schedule or time, you know, what, what you've promised.

That would be a fantastic tool to have in our pocket.