Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Generating Station
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The Virgil C. Summer nuclear power station occupies a site near Jenkinsville, South Carolina in Fairfield County, South Carolina. The site includes the decommissioned experimental Carolinas-Virginia Tube Reactor (CVTR) unit, just outside the site of the old town of Parr, SC. The VCTR was a 17 MWe, heavy water reactor. The Monticello reservoir (not to be confused with the Montecello nuclear plant in Minnesota) provides cooling water and feeds a pumped storage unit. This plant has one Westinghouse pressurized water reactor. A request to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to obtain a construction and operating license for a second, and possibly third reactor was submitted in early 2006. The site owners have chosen the Westinghouse AP1000 as the type of reactor to be built. This comes after the recent successful completion and approval of a license extension on unit one, taking the license expiration from 2022 to 2042. In 2001, the Summer unit operated at 79.9 percent of capacity, producing 6.76 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity. About two-thirds (66.7 percent) of the Summer plant is owned by its operator, the South Carolina Electric & Gas Company (a subsidiary of the SCANA corporation). The remaining 33.3 percent is owned by the South Carolina Public Service Authority. [edit] External links
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