Nuclear & Uranium
State Nuclear Profiles
Data for 2010 | Release Date: April 26, 2012 | Next Release: February 2013 | full report
Georgia Nuclear Profile 2010 Georgia profile
Primary energy source | Summer capacity (mw) |
Share of State total (percent) |
Net generation (thousand mwh) |
Share of State total (percent) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Nuclear | 4,061 | 11.1 | 33,512 | 24.6 |
Coal | 13,230 | 36.1 | 73,298 | 54.0 |
Hydro and Pumped Storage | 3,851 | 10.5 | 3,044 | 2.7 |
Natural Gas | 12,668 | 34.6 | 23,884 | 15.9 |
Other 1 | - | - | 18 | * |
Other Renewable1 | 637 | 1.7 | 3,181 | 2.2 |
Petroleum | 2,189 | 6.0 | 641 | 0.5 |
Total | 36,636 | 100.0 | 128,698 | 100 |
1Municipal Solid Waste net generation is allocated according to the biogenic and non-biogenic components of the fuel; however, all Municipal Solid Waste summer capacity is classified as Renewable. |
Plants in State
Operator: Southern Nuclear Operating Company
Location: The Edwin I. Hatch nuclear power plant is near Baxley, Appling County, in southeastern Georgia. The plant, named for a former president and chairman of Georgia Power, is located on a 2,244-acre site.
Construction Cost: $3.214 billion (2007 USD)2
Reactor Descriptions: The Hatch plant has two General Electric Type 4 boiling water reactors.
Cooling System: The Hatch plant relies on mechanical draft cooling towers that draw water from the Altamaha River.
Operator: Southern Nuclear Operating Company
Location and Service Territory: This power plant is located in Burke County, near Augusta, Georgia.
Construction Cost: Vogtle's construction costs were $19.071 billion (2007 USD)2
Staffing: 840 employees
Reactor Descriptions: The Vogtle site includes two, Westinghouse four-loop pressurized water reactors. Each reactor vessel holds 193 fuel assemblies.
Cooling System: Vogtle draws cooling water from the Savannah River and supplements this cooling source with a pair of 548-foot tall natural draft towers.
2Nuclear Power Plant Construction Activity, DOE/EIA-0473(86), Energy Information Administration, 1986, pp 16-17, Table 5. Adjusted to 2007 Dollars using Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index.