Nuclear Energy

South Carolina utility halts construction at nuclear reactors

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Key Points
  • The board of Santee Cooper, a state-owned utility, voted to halt construction of two nuclear reactors at the V.C. Summer generating plant.
  • The plant has billions of dollars in cost overruns.
A containment building for unit two of the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station near Jenkinsville, S.C., is shown during a media tour of the facility Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016.
Chuck Burton | AP

The board of Santee Cooper, a state-owned utility, voted to halt construction on Monday of two unfinished nuclear reactors at the V.C. Summer generating plant, which have been dogged by billions of dollars of cost overruns.

The project is 55 percent owned by a unit of Scana and 45 percent owned by Santee Cooper.