Quarterly Nuclear Deployment Summary

Moving Toward Deployment

July 2012
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New Plant Construction Progress

Summary: Full nuclear construction can now begin for V.C. Summer Units 2 and 3 and Vogtle Units 3 and 4. TVA is proceeding with the completion of the Watts Bar 2 and Bellefonte 1 reactors.

New Nuclear Plants under Construction:  COLs for Vogtle Units 3 and 4 and V.C. Summer Units 2 and 3 have been issued.

Vogtle

• At the Vogtle site, work on the containment vessel bottom head for Units 3 and 4 vessel continues. The CR10 module, which will hold the Unit 3 containment vessel bottom head, is being assembled.
• For pictures of Votgle Units 3 and 4, please visit the South Nuclear website.

VC Summer

• Testing for the heavy-lift derrick crane at the V.C. Summer site was recently finished. Work is continuing on both bottom containment vessel heads and work is beginning on the cooling towers.
• For pictures of VC Summer Units 2 and 3, please visit the SCE&G website.

Watts Bar 2

• Watts Bar 2, near Spring City, Tennessee, is now expected to come online late 2015 at a revised cost of $4 billion.

Globally

• Construction of some reactor designs to be built in the US is underway in other countries: four AP1000s in /China, two APWRs in Japan, one EPR in Finland and France and another two in China; four ABWRs have been operated in Japan and four are nearing completion in Japan and Taiwan.

Expected Operation Date

• TVA expects Watts Bar 2 to be completed by late 2015.
• Southern Nuclear's Vogtle Units 3 and 4 are expected to come online in 2016 and 2017, respectively.
• SCE&G's VC Summer Units 2 and 3 are expected to come online in 2017 and 2018, respectively.
• Florida Power and Light's Turkey Point expects Unit 6 to come online by 2022 and Unit 7 by 2023.
• Progress Energy's Levy site expects the first unit to come online in 2024 and the second unit to follow 18 months later.