SCANA : SCE&G Achieves Construction Milestone With Placement of Unit 3 Containment Vessel Ring

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SCE&G Achieves Construction Milestone With Placement of Unit 3 Containment Vessel Ring CAYCE, S.C., April 18, 2016-South Carolina Electric & Gas Company (SCE&G), principal subsidiary of SCANA Corporation (NYSE:SCG), and its partners placed on April 13, 2016, the first containment vessel ring for the V.C. Summer Unit 3 nuclear plant.

Using one of the largest cranes in the world, workers placed the ring on top of the Unit 3 containment vessel bottom head. Two remaining rings and the top head will follow to complete the robust containment vessel, which will house the reactor vessel. All containment vessel rings are fabricated with multiple levels of steel plates. The completed structure will weigh about 4,000 tons and stand more than 200 feet, with a 130 foot-diameter.

To see this latest nuclear construction milestone and more, visit SCE&G on Flickr and YouTube.

SCE&G and co-owner Santee Cooper are building two 1,117-megawatt Westinghouse AP1000 reactors in Fairfield County, S.C. Progress continues with approximately 3,700 Westinghouse personnel and subcontractor workers on site daily. Additionally, SCE&G is expected to employ about 800 fulltime personnel when the new units are operational, and hiring is well under way.

Once the two units are complete, SCE&G anticipates its generation mix will be about 30 percent nuclear, 30 percent natural gas, and 30 percent scrubbed coal, with the balance in hydro, solar and biomass. More than 60 percent of SCE&G's generation will be non-emitting.

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SCE&G is a regulated public utility engaged in the generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity to approximately 698,000 customers in South Carolina. The company also provides natural gas service to approximately 347,000 customers throughout the state. More information about SCE&G is available at www.sceg.com.

SCANA Corporation, headquartered in Cayce, S.C., is an energy-based holding company principally engaged, through subsidiaries, in electric and natural gas utility operations and other energy-related businesses. Information about SCANA and its businesses is available at www.scana.com.

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