Quarterly Nuclear Deployment Summary

Moving Toward Deployment

January 2012
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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 early to mid 2012.

• At the Vogtle site, the platform for the heavy-lift derrick crane has been completed and the first part of the crane assembly is currently being installed on the track. Welding has also begun on the bottom head of the Unit 3 containment vessel as plates continue to arrive from Japan. Upon arrival from Japan, the condenser will also be installed.
• 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.
• Bellefonte Unit 1 construction will begin after Watts Bar 2 completes its first fuel load. The project is estimated to cost $4.9 billion
• 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