Crews Pour Foundation Mats at Summer and Vogtle Plants
On March 11, two years after the meltdown at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, crews at South Carolina Gas and Electric's V.C. Summer Unit 2 marked a more auspicious milestone: the first concrete pour at a U.S. nuclear powerplant in 30 years.
Three days later, crews at Southern Nuclear's Vogtle Unit 3 in Georgia completed another pour. "This has been a week of momentous progress in bringing a new generation of safe, clean, reliable nuclear energy to the United States," said Westinghouse Electric Co. President and CEO Danny Roderick.