South Carolina public power utility Santee Cooper, together with investor-owned South Carolina Electric & Gas Company, on Aug. 30 placed a reactor vessel in the containment building for one of the two new units that the two utilities are constructing at the V.C. Summer nuclear power plant in Fairfield County, S.C.
This is the first reactor vessel to be set at a new nuclear plant in the U.S. in more than 30 years, according to an Aug. 31 news release from the SCANA Corporation, which owns SCE&G.
