“During fuel load, nuclear technicians and operators from Westinghouse and Southern Nuclear are scheduled to safely transfer 157 fuel assemblies one-by-one from the Unit 3 spent fuel pool to the Unit 3 reactor core in the coming days.”
Vogtle 3 and 4 are the first new reactors built in the US in more than three decades. Georgia Power calls fuel load a historic milestone. The release lists 157 fuel assemblies and a Q1 2023 target. It never mentions the original schedule or the original budget, and that silence is the story.