The unfinished Unit 2 nuclear reactor pictured Sept. 12, 2024, at VC Summer nuclear site near Fairfield. (Provided by S.C. Nuclear Advisory Council)
COLUMBIA — A nuclear advisory group created by the Legislature is pushing for a study into restarting construction on a pair of nuclear reactors mothballed seven years ago as part of a failed nuclear power plant expansion in South Carolina.
Members of the governor’s Nuclear Advisory Council discussed the idea Tuesday after two of them made a trip last month to the abandoned reactors and parts left on site at the V.C. Summer nuclear plant in Fairfield County.
The site looked much better than expected, said Rick Lee, the council’s chairman.
“We went with the assumption that what we were going to see was in keeping with the public perception of V.C. Summer, and that is a site with tumbleweeds and coyotes and apocalyptic buildings all falling down,” said Lee, a government contracts consultant