Less than a year out from the first in-service deadline for its new nuclear units, Georgia Power needs the Bechtel-led project team to do something that’s never been done at the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion—meet an ambitious construction schedule.

Timely completion of work needed to meet the November 2021 Commercial Operational Date (COD) for Vogtle’s Unit 3 would represent a significant, near-miraculous turnaround of the long-troubled project. But it’s not something that project monitors believe will happen, according to testimony recently submitted to the Georgia Public Service Commission.