New Brookfield Venture May Restart Abandoned US Nuclear Project

Unit one of the VC Summer Nuclear Station near Jenkinsville, South Carolina in 2016. 

Photographer: Chuck Burton/AP Photo

Brookfield Asset Management has agreed to form an atomic power-plant development company with startup The Nuclear Company, which will first focus on potentially restarting an abandoned project in South Carolina.

The new company, which hasn’t been named yet, aims to build a fleet of reactors in the US, and will use designs from Westinghouse Electric Co., which is majority-owned by Brookfield Renewable Partners, Brookfield Asset said in a statement on Monday.