Plant Vogtle Celebrates 25 Years at Unit 2 and ANS Training Award (With Time-Lapse Construction Video)

Plant Vogtle Celebrates 25 Years at Unit 2 and ANS Training Award (With Time-Lapse Construction Video) Southern Co. recently marked two accolades at its Plant Vogtle nuclear facility in Georgia. Unit 2 is celebrating 25 years since the start of its commercial operation. In that time, the 1,215 megawatt plant achieved a lifetime capacity factor of 90.5 percent. In a release Tuesday, Southern noted that the Westinghouse four-loop pressurized water reactor generated electricity equal to what it would take to power the city of Atlanta for more than three decades. Vogtle was also recently highlighted by the American Nuclear Society. Charles Nesbitt, the training director at units 1 and 2, received the 2014 Robert L. Long Training Excellence Award. ANS honored his contributions to the field, which began when he joined Southern Nuclear in 1975 after service in the nuclear Navy. Nesbitt has also held the title of training deployment manager for Vogtle units 3 and 4. Southern recently released this time-lapse video showing five years of construction on the two new AP1000 reactors at the plant:  See Video>>>>  http://nuclearstreet.com/nuclear_power_industry_news/b/nuclear_power_news/archive/2014/07/16/plant-vogtle-celebrates-25-years-at-unit-2-and-ans-training-award-_2800_with-time_2d00_lapse-construction-video_2900_-071602.aspx#.U8abAhm5I7B