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Construction is well underway for two new nuclear reactors at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station in Jenkinsville, S.C. on Monday, April 9, 2012.
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In a Sept. 21, 2016 file photo, Kevin Marsh, CEO of SCANA Corp., speaks to the media at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station near Jenkinsville, S.C. Marsh and prosecutors have agreed to ask for a two-year prison sentence on federal and state charges he lied about the progress of two nuclear plants that were never finished. A judge will sentence Marsh Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021.
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An aerial view of the V.C. Summer construction site in Jenkinsville, where two nuclear reactors were being built by Santee Cooper and South Carolina Electric & Gas.
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SCE&G Blames Regulators for Nuke Plant Failure
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In this Sept. 21, 2016, file photo, V.C. Summer Nuclear Station's unit two's turbine is under construction near Jenkinsville, S.C., during a media tour of the facility. Construction on the unit was stopped in July 2017 before it generated any power.
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An aerial view of the V.C. Summer construction site in Jenkinsville, where two nuclear reactors were being built by Santee Cooper and South Carolina Electric & Gas.
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SCE&G Leader Retires
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In this Friday, June 13, 2014, file photo, a new cooling tower for a nuclear power plant reactor that's under construction stands near the two operating reactors at Plant Vogtle power plant in Waynesboro, Ga. Westinghouse Electric Co., the U.S. nuclear unit of Japan’s Toshiba Corp., filed for bankruptcy protection Wednesday, March 29, 2017, calling into question the future of a number of billion-dollar nuclear projects under construction, including two in the U.S.
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FILE - In this March 31, 2014 file photo, the shadow of a Royal New Zealand Air Force P3 Orion is seen on low level cloud while the aircraft searches for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean, near the coast of Western Australia. A series of catastrophic electrical and other failures may have led to the crash of Flight 370 over the Indian Ocean, according to a lawsuit filed Friday, March 3, 2017, in the U.S. on behalf of the families of 44 people on board the still missing plane.
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