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		<title>IEEFA U.S.: Price tag for new reactors at Vogtle Plant in Georgia climbs past $30 billion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2022 17:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Delays, mismanagement, overruns may leave Georgia Power ratepayers with enormous cost burden January 20, 2022 (IEEFA)—Once estimated at more than $14 billion, the price tag for two new reactors at Georgia Power Company’s Plant Vogtle site has now climbed past $30 billion, and both units will be more than six years late in coming online, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ratepayer Robbery: Plant Vogtle’s Units 3 and 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2021 16:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RATEPAYER ROBBERY 11/16/21: Plant Vogtle Units 3 and 4 is a research and communication effort designed to promote public understanding and civic accountability. What is meant by accountability? That means holding the Georgia Legislature, the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC), and Georgia Power/Southern Nuclear accountable for decision-making that reflects malfeasance, corporate greed, and commission incompetence and has imposed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Activists Push Co-owner, MEAG, to End the Insanity of Vogtle Units 3, 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2018 03:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Gloria Tatum 9/22/18 APN – On Thursday, September 20, 2018, activists insisted that the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (MEAG), a minority co-owner of the pending two new nuclear reactors 3 and 4 at Plant Vogtle, finally abandon the insanity that is their continued involvement in the project. Since the previous report by Atlanta [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Effort to end financing law gains steam in Ga.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2018 19:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Kristi Swartz ATLANTA 2/27/18 — A bill that would end the controversial financing law that&#8217;s being used to expand Plant Vogtle passed the Georgia Senate yesterday. The measure would apply only to future nuclear reactors and would not affect Georgia Power Co.&#8217;s Plant Vogtle expansion project. Still, while the proposal (S.B. 355) does no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia Power vs. the law of holes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lyle Harris 10/16/17 ATLANTA Georgia Power is likely to get another shot-in-the-arm after announcing plans to complete construction on those ill-fated nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle near Waynesboro. A more appropriate response to this epic boondoggle, of course, would be a swift kick in the pants. But don’t count on it. The Georgia Public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia nuke backers scramble for reasons to keep going</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2017 00:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Matt Kempner 8/26/17 ATLANTA: There’s a mad scramble underway to come up with new reasons for why Georgians should continue to pay billions of dollars to expand nuclear power in the state. National security! Push back against Russia and China! Healthcare! Seriously? Yeah, if you believe elected officials, who in the next few days [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Idle’ workers cited at delayed Vogtle nuclear power project</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2017 20:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Matt Kempner 6/16/17: Add “idle” workers to the list of troubles at Georgia Power’s struggling nuclear expansion at Plant Vogtle. Construction workers are supposed to be toiling away on the project that’s already three years behind schedule and falling farther behind. But a state monitor recently testified that “idle time, early quits and late [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vogtle completion &#8216;uneconomic,&#8217; Ga. PSC consultants say</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2017 18:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by  Colby Bermel 6/13/17: Consultants to the Georgia Public Service Commission said June 8 that Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC&#8217;s bankruptcy has &#8220;invalidated&#8221; Georgia Power Co.&#8217;s cost calculations at its Alvin W. Vogtle Nuclear Plant and it would be &#8220;uneconomic&#8221; to complete the plant&#8217;s expansion. The consultants also said that if Georgia Power were to continue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia Power profits off Plant Vogtle construction despite cost overruns, delays, and contractor bankruptcy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2017 21:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Anne Maxwell WAYNESBORO, Ga. 5/8/17: The construction of two nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle is years behind schedule and billions over budget. Last month, the contractor, Westinghouse Electric, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Plant Vogtle employees hundreds of people in Burke County and the temporary contract with Westinghouse expires Friday, which means the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Troubled nuclear plant costs rising for Savannah residents</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Apr 2017 21:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mary Landers SAVANNAH 4/8/2017: The costs for Georgia Power’s troubled Plant Vogtle are adding up, but not for the utility or its investors. Instead, ratepayers are already paying for the two new nuclear reactors, both of which may never produce a watt of electricity. How much have customers already dished out? For southside Savannah [...]]]></description>
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