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Construction of nuclear reactor in 2012 in US
10 August 2011: Southern Company is expecting to begin full construction of two reactors at the end of this year, having been given a licensing schedule by the nuclear safety regulators. Significant site work is already underway for Vogtle 3 and 4, near Waynesboro, Georgia, including some related to safety taking place under a limited authorization. The official start of construction of a nuclear power plant comes with the first pouring of concrete related to nuclear safety, but this will have to wait a few more months.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will be ready to issue a Final Safety Evaluation Report in August 2011and that the public hearing process on that will take until around the end of 2011. The result should be a combined Construction and Operating Licence that will authorise full scale construction, commissioning and operation - subject of course to ongoing checks by the NRC.
Source: yourindustrynews