The company is putting together financing for the project and plans to break ground in the spring, says Tony Mannarino, an executive vice president at Extell.
Georgia regulators have endorsed the project and are even allowing the company to charge ratepayers for financing costs before the reactors are up and running.
Mr Bentley said RMB still backed the scheme and was "evaluating project debt capacities under a range of varying gold price scenarios in order to assist the company in evaluating an optimal approach to financing the project".