South Carolina Utility Eyes Buyers for Unfinished Nuclear Reactors

South Carolina power provider Santee Cooper is looking for buyers to complete construction on a pair of nuclear reactors, which have sat unfinished since the utility abandoned the project in 2017.

The project was first proposed in 2007, but was shut down a decade later following a series of delays and budget issues, leaving the reactors less than 40% built despite costing roughly $9 billion. According t…