The first of the next generation design of nuclear plants hasn't been fully endorsed yet by regulators, but Georgians will begin paying for the new nuclear plant design in January 2011.

Under a rate plan approved by the Georgia Public Service Commission earlier this year, Georgia Power Co. customers will pay an extra 1.3 percent every year from 2011 through 2017 to cover financing costs for two new nuclear reactors to be built at the Plant Vogtle site near Waynesboro, Ga.

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