New aerial photos show SCANA’s $10 billion abandoned nuclear reactor site that cost 725,000 ratepayers $2.2 billion.

The photos were released by an anonymous aerial photographer a day after the agreement by former SCANA CEO Kevin Marsh to plead guilty to fraud for the failed construction.

The photos were taken on Nov. 20 by High Flyer, a local pilot who prefers to remain anonymous.

For many years, the public interest organization Savannah River Site Watch has publicized other aerial photos.

The photos of the deserted site reveal it is looking a bit weather-worn and appears much as it did when the project was terminated in 2017.

The large crane (heavy lift derrick) - claimed to be the largest such crane in the world - remains at the site and apparently unsold.

The reactor buildings remain unprotected from the weather.

The costly steam generators are still sitting outside.

Equipment remains in outside laydown yards and temporary equipment storage structures remain.

No vehicles or personnel can be seen.

SRS Watch believes that the photos will help the public and officials visualize just what a massive fiasco the construction project remains.

“There are few sites in the world that so starkly remind us of billions of dollars thrown down a rat hole for the financial benefit of a few selfish criminals,” said Tom Clements, director of SRS Watch.

Clements led the public interventions before the SC Public Service Commission against the project in 2008 and 2017, with the environmental organization Friends of the Earth.

“We are grateful to the federal attorneys for pursuing fraud charges against former SCANA CEO Kevin Marsh and urge the court to sentence him to the maximum fine and prison term as allowed by law,” said Clements.