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Southern Company Today
• More than 42,000 megawatts of
generating capacity
• More than 27,000 miles of
transmission lines
• 4.4 million customers in the
Southeast
• ≈ 26,000 employees
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Who is Southern Nuclear ?
Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant
Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant Vogtle Electric Generating Plant
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ALABAMA POWER LOGO
MISSISSIPPI POWER
LOGO
GULF POWER
LOGO
GEORGIA POWER
LOGO
Farley
Vogtle
Hatch
Vogtle
3&4
Southern Nuclear Fleet
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• Streamlined licensing process
– Early public participation and resolution
of safety issues prior to construction
– Authorization of both construction and
operation in a single proceeding
Allows utilities to develop much more
certainty around budgets and schedules
at the front end of the project
Why New Nuclear?
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Old Licensing Process
Construction Permit
Application *
Construction Operating License
Application
Operating License
Issued *Operations
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Improved Licensing Process
Early Site Permit
(ESP)
Combined
Construction and
Operating
License (COL)
Procurement
and
Preconstruction
Construction
and
Startup
Early Site Permit (ESP)
• Addresses the suitability of the site
• Issues addressed such as:
• seismic suitability,
• water availability,
• emergency planning,
• socio-economic,
• environmental impacts of construction and operation.
• Some pre-construction activities are allowed under this permit.
Procurement and Preconstruction
• Long lead procurement of major
components and commodities.
• Subsurface preparation
• Building of some infrastructure
• Barge slip
• Roads
• Temporary Construction Facilities
• Laydown areas
Combined Construction and Operating License (COL)
• Evaluation of a certified plant design on a specific site.
• Additional site specific evaluations, design, and analyses
are performed to demonstrate that a plant using a specific
technology can be safely built and operated at that site.
Construction and Startup
• All safety related construction
activities
• Training Operations and
Maintenance personnel
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• Nuclear Power Generation Technology
– New safety system designs like that
utilized by the AP1000
– Use of modular construction techniques
– Standardization of reactor designs
Allows for better cost and schedule
certainty and allows for more
standardization operations once installed
Why New Nuclear?
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Fewer Commodities and Components
50% Fewer
Safety Valves
35% Fewer
Pumps
80% Less
Safety Pipe
(still achieving
higher levels
of safety)
45% Less
Seismic
Building
Volume
70% Less
Cable
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• Westinghouse (Certified by NRC)
– AP1000 (Advanced Passive)
– 1100 MW
• GE – Hitachi / Toshiba (Certified by NRC)
– ABWR (Advance Boiling Water Reactor)
– 1350 MW
• GE - Hitachi
– ESBWR (Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor)
– 1600 MW
• Areva
– EPR (Evolutionary Pressurized Water Reactor)
– 1600 MW
• MHI
– APWR (Advanced Pressurized Water Reactor)
– 1700 MW
Standardized Designs
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PSC Certification √
Vogtle 3&4 Schedule
Issued March 17, 2009
CWIP / Senate Bill 31 Legislation
Monthly Status Reports
Semi-annual Monitor Report
Construction Monitor
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• Georgia State Regulatory
– Certification Statute
– GPSC certification on March 17, 2009 at $6.4
billion
– CWIP legislation passed by the Georgia
legislature, and approved by the Georgia
Public Service Commission
• Reduction to $4.5 billion
• DOE Loan Guarantee– 1 of 4 finalists under the DOE loan program
– Due Diligence underway
Project Regulatory / Financial
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Project Basics
• Engineering Procurement
Construction Contract (EPC)
–Westinghouse and Shaw Consortium
–AP1000 Technology
–Signed April 8, 2008
–Basis of Self-build Proposal submitted
to Georgia Public Service Commission
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Early Site Permit √
Vogtle 3&4 Schedule
Issued August 26, 2009 – First technology
specific ESP and LWA
Site Suitability
Environmental Impacts
Seismic Analysis
Limited Work Authorization (LWA)
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Pre-COL Construction
Vogtle 3&4 Schedule
Excavation
Engineered Fill (Backfill)
Mechanical Stabilizing Earth Walls
Concrete Batch Plant
Buildings / Utilities
Blue Bluff Marl (Bearing Layer)
Lower Sands
Engineering FillUpper Sands
Utley Limestone45º
86’
75’
90
0
’
Pre-LWA Activities
- Excavation
LWA Activities
- Engineered Fill
- Mud Mats (A)
- Waterproof Liner (B)
- MSE Wall (C)
A B
C
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Excavation Facts• Excavation began August 10, 2009
• The estimated on-site mileage of all the
dump trucks used during earthwork
would equal driving around the world 8
times.
• If you built an interstate highway with the
concrete used on-site it would stretch
2,000 miles.
• The largest projected single crane lift will
be over 1000 tons.
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DCD Certification & COL License
Post-COL Construction
Vogtle 3&4 Schedule
Westinghouse - DCD
Intense NRC Interaction
NuStart
Allows for Full Construction
Major Safety Related Concrete
48 months Construction + 6 months Startup
NRC Inspection and Testing
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2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 20172005
Early Site Permit
PSC Certification √
√
DCD Certification & COL License
Pre-COL Construction
Post-COL Construction
Vogtle 3&4 Schedule
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Construction Staffing
Projected Staffing During Construction
• About 3,000 people on site during
construction
~2,500 craft workers required at peak
~500 Contractor Construction and
Project Mgt
~125 Southern Company Oversight
Personnel
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SNC Staffing Timeline – Total Plant
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458
665
800
39
880890
244
106
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207
135
90
138
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
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2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Date
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Passive Containment Cooling System
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