Vogtle Unit 4 enters commercial operation

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1. Story
2. The second of two Westinghouse AP1000 reactors at Plant Vogtle in Georgia enters commercial operation, its sister unit having done so in 2023. They are the first newly constructed reactors completed in the United States in some three decades. The project ran many years beyond its original schedule and its final cost was several times the initial estimate; the reactor vendor entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy during construction. Vogtle is included here neither as an argument for nor against fission, but as the observable data point on the question this Journey asks about learning: two units built in sequence, in the same country, to the same design, is close to the minimum condition for learning to appear at all, and the cost history of Western first-of-a-kind projects is what the negative-learning literature is about.
3. Knowledge
4. The experience (learning) curve
5. Nuclear fission power
6. Vogtle Unit 4 enters commercial operation
7. Connections
8. Nuclear fission power
9. The experience (learning) curve
10. Variability and intermittency in generation
11. The experience (learning) curve
12. Vogtle Unit 4 enters commercial operation
13. Theodore Paul Wright
14. Photovoltaic solar generation
15. The horizontal-axis wind turbine
16. Lithium-ion battery storage
17. Nuclear fission power
18. International Energy Agency
19. Wright publishes the airframe cost-quantity relationship
20. The conventional start of the photovoltaic module price series
21. Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act takes effect
22. Chinese manufacturing takes over the photovoltaic supply chain
23. The photovoltaic learning curve is popularised as Swanson's law
24. Vogtle Unit 4 enters commercial operation
25. Empirically grounded technology forecasts and the energy transition
26. Evidence
27. Supports the finding that overnight construction costs for nuclear reactors rose over time in the United States and France rather than falling with cumulative experience, with more varied trends in other national programmes — the empirical basis for treating constructed generation as behaving differently from manufactured generation. V55 verification basis: not retrieved in this session. This paper has been contested in subsequent literature on both data selection and interpretation, and a curator should represent that dispute rather than the finding alone.