Seanna Adcox

Associated Press

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This April 9, 2012 file photo shows construction well underway for two new nuclear reactors at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station in Jenkinsville, S.C. South Carolina's state-owned public utility has voted to stop construction on two billion-dollar nuclear reactors. The reactors were set to be among the first new nuclear reactors built in the U.S. in decades, but the vote by Santee Cooper’s board on Monday, July 31, 2017 likely ends their future.

Nuclear Reactors Scrapped

While the decision will save customers billions in additional costs, customers of the two utilities may get little to nothing refunded of the billions they've already paid for the now-abandoned project.