ITAACs and amendments for Summer and Vogtle

摘要

The sight of heavy objects being moved conveys (quite accurately) the impression that progress is being made on the new reactors being built at the Vogtle site in Georgia and the Summer site in South Carolina (see above). Also important, however, is the completion of tasks in the regulatory realm, although we admit that license amendments and verification forms for inspections, tests, analyses, and acceptance criteria (ITAAC) do not provide the same visceral thrill as the placement of containment segments. By early June, the ITAAC approval process had begun for the fourth of the four reactors, Summer-3, and Vogtle-3 and -4 had received their 20th license amendments.