{"id":168745,"date":"2023-07-31T12:29:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T17:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/the-first-us-nuclear-reactor-built-from-scratch-in-decades-enters-commercial-operation-in-georgia"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:29:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T17:29:23","slug":"the-first-us-nuclear-reactor-built-from-scratch-in-decades-enters-commercial-operation-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/the-first-us-nuclear-reactor-built-from-scratch-in-decades-enters-commercial-operation-in-georgia","title":{"rendered":"The first US nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-first-us-nuclear-reactor-built-from-scratch-in-decades-enters-commercial-operation-in-georgia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 A new reactor at a nuclear power plant in Georgia has entered commercial operation, becoming the first new American reactor built from scratch in decades.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia Power Co. announced Monday that Unit 3 at <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/georgia-nuclear-power-plant-vogtle-rates-costs-75c7a413cda3935dd551be9115e88a64\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plant Vogtle<\/a>, southeast of Augusta, has completed testing and is now sending power to the grid reliably.<\/p>\n<p>At its full output of 1,100 megawatts of electricity, Unit 3 can power 500,000 homes and businesses. Utilities in Georgia, Florida and Alabama are receiving the electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 A new reactor at a nuclear power plant in Georgia has entered commercial operation, becoming the first new American reactor built from scratch in decades. Georgia Power Co. announced Monday that Unit 3 at Plant Vogtle, southeast of Augusta, has completed testing and is now sending power to the grid reliably. At [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}