COLUMBIA — Westinghouse Electric Company plans to expand its nuclear fuel campus south of Columbia to make a new type of uranium for power plants.
The nuclear power giant announced Wednesday it would invest $1 billion in a new factory, alongside its existing plant in southern Richland County, to make what it calls low enriched uranium plus.
Westinghouse said the investment marks the first fleet-scale nuclear fuel factory built in the United States in more than 50 years. Construction is underway and operations are expected to begin in 2030.
It’s unclear whether the investment involves new jobs. Officials did not immediately provide answers to the SC Daily Gazette’s questions about the workforce…