Troubled $25 billion nuclear project gets OK to continue
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's utility regulators are allowing construction to continue on two new nuclear reactors, despite massive cost overruns for the multi-billion-dollar project.
Thursday's decision by the state's Public Service Commission will shape the future of the nation's nuclear industry, partly because the reactors at Plant Vogtle were the first new ones to be licensed and to begin construction in the U.S. since 1978.
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal praised the decision.
"Investing in clean, sustainable energy infrastructure is a worthwhile endeavor that will have a positive economic impact as well," Deal said in a statement shortly after Thursday's vote.
"It is important that we stay the course," he added.