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GEORGIA | VOGTLE
Alvin I. Vogtle (VOGTLE) Reactors 1 & 2
Operated by Southern Nuclear Operating (Southern Co. division in AL)
Located 26 Miles SE of Augusta, GA
Georgia Power's two Vogtle nuclear reactors on the Savannah River bordering Georgia and South Carolina came on-line in the late 1980s after a long, bitter controversy which bankrupted Georgia Power Company only 10 weeks after construction began in 1974. Read Chronology of a Boondoggle to get the full saga of 1000% cost overruns and decades-long set-backs and construction delays.
Despite studies, reports, and lawsuits proving that Georgia did not need the power and there were cheaper, safer alternatives to nuclear reactors, by the end of 1989 Georgia ratepayers were saddled with two new nuclear reactors which were boiling water to make electricity and racking up nuclear waste in order for Southern Company to fill orders for electric power as far away as Florida and Texas.
The Vogtle reactors withdraw 68,670,000 gallons from the Savannah River each day.
— Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
The Water – Energy Connection: Georgia Facts & Figures, 2008
THE DAY WE ALMOST LOST GEORGIA
In March 1990, a truck backed into a power pole in the Vogtle reactor switchyard knocking out power to Unit 1. This set off a chain of scary events resulting in a loss of electrical power at BOTH Vogtle reactors when the emergency diesel generators would not start. A constant electric supply is required to keep water pumping to cool the reactors.
The Vogtle 1 reactor core WAS OPEN FOR REFUELING and had the situation persisted fuel would have begun to melt within four to five hours.
Fortunately the emergency generators finally started and the incident resulted in national regulatory reform, instead of a meltdown, with respect to maintaining emergency power supply at nuclear reactors. Read the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) report on the Vogtle accident.
Top-level manager at Vogtle, Allen Mosbaugh was fired by Georgia Power for blowing the whistle. He claimed Georgia Power officials deliberately misled the NRC about the 1990 accident at Vogtle. Mosbaugh secretly audiotaped Georgia Power meetings which revealed that plant managers knew about the diesel generator problems before the accident and falsified diesel reliability reports to the NRC. Mosbaugh went to court to get his job back after being fired for blowing the whistle and after several years reached an out-of-court settlement which closed the record on the case.
Nuclear Watch South (then called GANE - Georgians Against Nuclear Energy) also brought a legal intervention before the NRC about the diesel generator issue. Although we were unable to force Georgia Power to fix the broken diesels through the NRC system, a lawyer for Georgia Power later told Nuclear Watch South that we "really helped" -- that Georgia Power not only elected to upgrade the diesel generators as we had recommended, but had also taken our idea to tie-in to oil-fired Plant Wilson in Burke County for additional back-up electrical source.
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SAVANNAH RIVER FOURTH MOST POLLUTED IN NATION
by Mary Landers
GEORGIA
COUNTY SNAPSHOTS: BURKE COUNTY
HEALTH RISKS OF ADDING NEW REACTORS
TO THE VOGTLE NUCLEAR PLANT
by Joseph J. Mangano, MPH MBA
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VOGTLE FACTS
VOGTLE 1
Pressurized water reactor
Utility: Georgia Power
Reactor Supplier: Westinghouse
Steam Generator Supplier: General Electric
Architecture: Bechtel, Georgia Power
Construction: Georgia Power
Rated at 1,215 Megawatts (net output 1,100 MW)
IMPORTANT DATES
1974 -Construction permit
1987 -Operating license (NPF-68)
1987 -Commercial operations began
2027 -Operating license expires
2009 -NRC issues 20-year license extension until 2047
VOGTLE 2
Pressurized water reactor
Utility: Georgia Power
Reactor Supplier: Westinghouse
Steam Generator Supplier: General Electric
Architecture: Bechtel, Georgia Power
Construction: Georgia Power
Rated at 1,215 Megawatts (net output 1,097 Mw)
IMPORTANT DATES
1974 -Construction permit
1989 -Operating license (NPF-81)
1989 -Commercial operations began
2029 -Operating license expires
2009 - NRC issues 20-year license extension until 2049
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Augusta (Burke County) Race and Ethnicity
| Augusta | U.S. | ||
| White | 46.9% | 75.1% | |
| Black | 51.0% | 12.3% | |
| Native American | 00.2% | 00.9% | |
| Asian | 00.3% | 03.6% | |
| Hawaiian | 00.0% | 00.1% | |
| Other | 00.6% | 05.5% | |
| Mixed race | 01.0% | 02.4% | |
| Latino | 01.4% | 12.5% | |
| Median income | $27,877 | $41,994 | |
| College degree | 06.5% | 15.5% |