SCE&G

A South Carolina utility has agreed to share information with China on building and operating nuclear reactors.

Scana Company. chairman and CEO Bill Timmerman says that China will send teams to the company’s existing reactor north of Columbia to study operations.
Scana’s South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. plans to build two new units designed by Westinghouse at the site in Jenkinsville in Fairfield County. China is building four of the units.

Timmerman says SCE&G can learn from China’s construction experience on how to deal with the issues of building the huge reactors.

SCE&G is working with the state-owned utility Santee Cooper on the nearly $10 billion project.  The utility’s engineers were in China for a week in April and
plan to return.