JENKINSVILLE – Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will hold a public meeting May 6 to discuss the 2024 safety performance of the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station. The plant, which has one unit, is in Jenkinsville, South Carolina, and is operated by Dominion Energy. The meeting will run from 5:30–7 p.m. Eastern time at the Lake […]
VC Summer gets yellow flag – 2nd highest warning
October 12, 2023 By
WINNSBORO – For the second time in 12 months, federal nuclear inspectors have noted defects in critical hardware at the V.C. Summer nuclear plant in Fairfield County. On October 4, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) informed Dominion Energy, which operates V.C. Summer, of an apparent violation of “substantial safety significance.” The NRC issued a preliminary […]
Update on SCE&G lawsuit
February 15, 2018 By
WINNSBORO – Last week attorneys for South Carolina Electric and Gas Company (SCE&G) argued in the Sixth Circuit Judicial Court for a change of venue for the lawsuit filed against them by Fairfield County. Attorneys for Fairfield County argued that the trial should remain in the county where the incident (the abandonment of reactors two […]
Citizens looking for answers to nuclear plant’s wastewater plans
July 13, 2012 By
It was a fairly positive atmosphere on Saturday afternoon at the Pentecostal Church on Golf Course Road. The Fairfield County Progressive Citizens (FCPC) met to discuss their concerns over the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit (#SC0049131), issued to VC Summer Nuclear Station by the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC), which they […]
