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Vogtle Nuclear Expansion Total Cost is 65 Billion Dollars, former Commissioner Says

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Photograph by Glenn Carroll, Nuclear Watch South   (APN) ATLANTA — Plant Vogtle’s proposed nuclear expansion with new units 3 and 4 will cost an estimated 65 billion dollars, former Georgia Public Service (PSC) Commissioner Bobbie Baker says, based on his analysis of information he received when cross-examining the PSC staff witness at the June 23, 2015 PSC hearing.   […]

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Federal Government Backs 6.5 Billion Dollars in Loans for Plant Vogtle

  By Glenn Carroll, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) ATLANTA — On February 20, 2014, U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz came down to Georgia to sign off on giving 6.5 billion in taxpayer dollars to Southern Company, its subsidiary Georgia Power, and Oglethorpe Power to build two nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle near Augusta.   MEAG (Municipal […]

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