On April 9 , 2008 , Georgia Power Company reached a contract agreement with Westinghouse and Shaw for two AP1000 reactors to be built at Vogtle . The contract represents the first agreement for new nuclear development since the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 . The license request for the Vogtle site is based on revision 18 of the AP1000 design . On February 16 , 2010 , President Obama announced $ 8.33 billion in federal loan guarantees to construct the two AP1000 units at the Vogtle plant . The cost of building the two reactors is expected to be $ 14 billion
Three Mile Island accident
Three Mile Island accident
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