The airport outside Waynesboro was probably pretty busy the other day. Leaders from across the state and the country traveled to Burke County to celebrate the many years, and dollars, that went into opening the first new nuclear power units in decades. Plant Vogtle will now be producing more than 30 million megawatt hours of electricity each year – enough power for approximately 25 percent of the state. Including Plant Hatch in Baxley, somewhere between 35 and 40 percent of the state’s population now receives electricity from nuclear power.
