Plant Vogtle at a glance
Location: Waynesboro,
Ga.
Existing units: Two Westinghouse pressurized water reactors were finished in 1987 and 1989.
New units: Two Westinghouse AP1000 reactors are being built for completion by 2020. When TVA gave up the design for the AP1000 at its Bellefonte plant in Alabama, Plant Vogtle became the first new plant to use the next-generation design.
Owners: Georgia Power (45.7 percent), Oglethorpe Power Corp. (30 percent), Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (22.7 percent) and city of Dalton (1.6 percent) › Operator: Southern Nuclear
Source: Southern Co.