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The 950-ton containment vessel lower ring for Vogtle Unit 4 is placed on December 11, 2015.

The Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, also known as Plant Vogtle, is a 2-unit nuclear power plant located in Burke County, near Waynesboro, Georgia, in the southeastern United States. It is named after the Alabama Power and Southern Company board chairman, Alvin Vogtle.

Each unit has a Westinghouse pressurized water reactor (PWR), with a General Electric turbine and electric generator. Units 1 and 2 were completed in 1987 and 1989, respectively. Each unit is capable of producing approximately 1,200 MW of electricity when online, for a combined capacity of 2,400 MW. Southern Nuclear lists the capacity as 1,215 MW each, for a combined output of 2,430 MW. The twin natural-draft cooling towers are 548 ft (167 m) tall and provide cooling to the plant's main condensers. Four smaller mechanical draft cooling towers provide service water cooling to auxiliary safety and non safety components and remove the decay heat from the reactor when the plant is offline. One natural-draft tower and two service water towers serve each unit. In 2009, the NRC renewed the licenses for both units for an additional 20 years, to the 2040s.

Construction of two additional AP1000 reactors (3 and 4) are underway. Natural-draft type cooling towers were also selected and the two new cooling towers will also be nearly 550 feet tall. The certified construction & capital costs for these two new units were originally 4,418 million which escalated to an estimated $5,045 million according to the Twelfth Semi-annual Vogtle Construction Monitoring Report. This last report blames the latest increase of costs to Contractor not completing work as scheduled. Though the utility suffered some of the cost increases resulting from the delay, protections in the EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) agreement largely insulate the utility from these cost increases.

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