Three factors combined to sink the prospects in the U.S. of a combined $127 billion worth of new nuclear reactors projects which flooded the NRC with license applications in the period 2006-2008.

The first is the record low price of natural gas. The second is the Fukushima crisis of March 2011 which cast a long shadow of doubt across the global industry. The third is the “bet the company” risks of investing in a $5-10 billion project in a merchant market where the reactor does not get credit for carbon reduction nor for keeping the grid stable for all those “reneweable” and highly variable wind and solar energy projects. With few exceptions, no “prudent investors” will proceed against these headwinds.

However, Southern Company proceeded to invest in two new Westinghouse AP1000s at the Vogtle site in Georgia with the help of $8.3 billion in loan guarantees from the U.S. Department of Energy. SCANA chose to move forward with two Ap1000s at the V C Summer site in South Carolina, but without loan guarantees. TVA completed Watts Bar II loading fuel in the reactor in December 2015.

Hat tip to Joe Deely, a reader at the Energy Collective, for helping set up the table below.

So where are they now?