The Latest: Troubled nuke project gets go-ahead to continue
ATLANTA (AP) — The Latest on the Georgia Public Service meeting about construction of new nuclear generators at a power plant (all times local):
10:25 a.m.
Georgia's utility regulators are allowing construction to continue on two new nuclear reactors, despite massive cost-overruns for the multi-billion-dollar project.
Thursday's decision by the state's Public Service Commission will shape the future of the nation's nuclear industry, partly because the reactors at Plant Vogtle were the first new ones to be licensed and to begin construction in the U.S. since 1978.
About 100 existing commercial nuclear reactors supply roughly 20 percent of U.S. electricity.