Quarterly Nuclear Deployment Summary

Moving Toward Deployment

October 2011
< Back to Scorecard

New Plant Construction, Operation, Deferral

Summary: Site preparatory work is in progress for Vogtle, V.C. Summer nuclear projects. TVA is proceeding with the completion of the Watts Bar 2 and Bellefonte 1 reactors.

New Nuclear Plants under Construction:Vogtle Units 3 and 4 and V.C. Summer Units 2 and 3 are on schedule with COLs expected to be issued in late 2011 and early 2012.

• As of September 2011, the engineered backfill at Vogtle Unit 3 and 4 is 83 percent and 53 percent complete, respectively. An extended Limited Work Authorization or COL is expected by the end of this year to continue with the nuclear island rebar and concrete.
• Construction is on schedule for V.C. Summer Units 2 and 3 to come online in 2016 and 2019, respectively.
• Watts Bar 2, near Spring City, Tennessee, resumed at an estimated total cost of $2.5 billion with completion expected in 2013.
• The NRC has extended the construction permit for Bellefonte Unit 1 in Alabama. The TVA board of directors approved the completion of Bellefonte Unit 1 on August 18, 2011,
• 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 another in France; four ABWRs are in operation in Japan and four are nearing completion in Japan and Taiwan.

New Nuclear Plant Begin Operation: None.

Deferred: None