South Carolina's major power provider wants to start accepting bidding from buyers on Wednesday, completed two nuclear reactors, and wants to use recent interest in the energy source of technology companies.
Utility, Santee Cooper, wants to sell the reactor that became a ship in 2017 before half was completed. The decision was quickly hungry for electricity, as we began to look at the nuclear power plant in search of the ability to provide many power in 24 hours without releasing the emissions that cause climate change. I am building.
However, in the last few decades in the United States, delays and cost overruns have been bothering nuclear power. When Santee Cooper stopped building two reactors at the VC Summer power plant, it was built less than 40 %, stalling the project as a remarkable advancement of US nuclear power generation. Electric & gas of South Carolina, a partner and partner, spent about $ 9 billion on incomplete reactors.
Santee Cooper said that in cooperation with the investment company CentralView Partners, he has sending potential proposals from potential buyers to the field until May 5. Once completed, the company added that he would not own or operate a reactor.
“We are expected to have a new interest in advanced manufacturing investment, AI -led data centers, and nuclear power supported by zero carbon targets in the high -tech industry,” said Santy Cooper's highest executive.・ Starton states in a statement.
The first proposal in 2007 -When the industry officials predicted the resurrection of nuclear power -the South Carolina Project worked on the changing energy landscape before stalling 10 years later. With the improvement of energy efficiency, the demand for power to the nationwide plateau in that year, but the hydraulic crushed boom has overflowed the country with inexpensive natural gas.
VC Summer has one large -scale operating reactor built in 1982 and is operated by Domition Energy, a utility company in Richmond, Virginia. An incomplete reactor owned by Santee Cooper.
Energy landscape has changed again in recent years. Several high -tech companies, including Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet, have stated that it will help to provide funds to the construction of nuclear reactors to support the expansion of artificial intelligence.
The federal government also intervened to help the revival of interest in nuclear power. In September, the Energy Bureau stated that it had confirmed $ 1.52 billion loan guarantee to support the restarting of a closed nuclear power plant in Michigan. Congress and the Biden administration have provided billions of dollars subsidies to continue operating old nuclear power plants and build new reactors. President Trump said he opposed the energy and many climate policy of former President Joseph R. Videen Jr., and said he supported nuclear energy.
In recent years, concerns regarding climate change have increased in recent years, and demand for nuclear power has increased. The reactor can generate electricity without releasing a greenhouse gas that warms the planet. However, environmental protectionists and other critics can be very expensive in the reactor of the building, and the United States is still a long -term storage strategy for radioactive waste generated by the reactor. He pointed out that he was not. Some other countries have developed a place for such storage.
