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Jun112011

Cost overruns and schedule delays at Vogtle new build in Georgia?

The Augusta Chronicle has reported that a State of Georgia monitor on the proposal for building two new AP1000 reactors at the Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant has warned that lingering questions about the reactor design could add to costs, as well as delay the start-up date for the first new reactors to break ground in the U.S. in decades. The Associated Press has also reported on this story.

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