V.C. Summer Nuclear Project Abandoned After $9 Billion Failure - Ratepayers Forced to Pay $2.3 Billion for Never-Built Reactors

On July 31, 2017, SCANA Corporation and South Carolina’s state-owned utility Santee Cooper abandoned the V.C. Summer nuclear expansion project after a decade of construction, $9 billion in expenditures, and massive cost overruns. Despite the complete failure to deliver any functioning nuclear …