A $21 Billion Failed Nuclear Project is Still Haunting Scana

Scana Corp. may have dropped a $21 billion plan to build a nuclear power plant in South Carolina, but washing its hands of the project altogether won’t be so easy.

On Thursday, the utility disclosed that it received a federal subpoena for documents related to the canceled reactors. Earlier this month, South Carolina’s governor made public a report suggesting Scana was aware of challenges plaguing the project since early last year. And the state legislature is carrying out a probe of how plans for the two reactors at the V.C. Summer plant fell apart.

The backlash does not bode well ...