After 9 years of construction, work on two nuclear reactors in Jenkinsville, South Carolina was suspended on Monday.
The reactors, which were supposed to be operational by 2019 (more like 2024 according to Santee Cooper, one of the utilities), were among the first American nuclear power projects in decades.
The original budget was around $10 billion but has doubled due to construction issues and delays – and the utility companies plan to add those expenses onto customers’ electric bills, in order to make back $2 billion over the next sixty years.
Some environmental groups are planning to challenge the utility’s ability to charge those abandonment costs to customers.
Read more on The Post and Courier.
