Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Generating Station

The Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Power Station occupies a site near Jenkinsville, South Carolina, in Fairfield County, South Carolina, approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Columbia. The plant has one Westinghouse 3-loop Pressurized Water Reactor, which has received approval of a 20-year license extension, taking the license expiration of Unit 1 from 2022 to 2042. Its cooling water is supplied by the Monticello Reservoir, which is also used by a pumped storage (hydroelectric) unit. The plant utilizes a once-through cooling system. The owners, South Carolina Electric and Gas and South Carolina Public Service Authority, were in the process of constructing two new AP1000 reactors on the site, which had been scheduled to go into service in 2020, but due to cost overruns which forced the construction contractor, Westinghouse, into bankruptcy in what was referred to as the Nukegate scandal, construction on these was abandoned in 2017. The nuclear power station also includes the decommissioned experimental Carolinas-Virginia Tube Reactor (CVTR) unit, just outside the site of the old town of Parr, SC. The CVTR was a 17 MWe, heavy water reactor. The plant is named after Virgil Clifton Summer, the former chairman and CEO of SCE&G. In August 2023, Dominion Energy applied for another 20-year license extension for Unit 1 until August 7, 2062, which was granted by the Nuclear Regulatory C

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