Progress Energy Won’t Build New Reactors Before 2020

By Simon Lomax - Feb 17, 2011 1:30 PMProgress had “casual conversations” with Scana Corp. and state-owned utility Santee Cooper about taking a stake in the reactor project near Jenkinsville, South Carolina, Johnson said today in an interview. Talks will get “more realistic” when the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission grants a construction and operating license for the plant, he said.