 Welcome to Vogel Timeline, our quarterly news report keeping you up to date on the latest happenings here at the Vogel 3 and 4 site near Augusta, Georgia. The summer was busier than ever here at this site. With more than 5,000 personnel on site, many new milestones have been accomplished. The cooling tower for Unit 3 is about two-thirds complete, currently rising to more than 450 feet. When completed, it will reach 601 feet, which will be almost 50 feet taller than the cooling towers for Vogel units 1 and 2. Ongoing activities in the Unit 3 nuclear island are paving the way for key milestones to come. Reinforcing steel, installation and concrete placements are required both inside and outside of the containment vessel bottom head, or CVBH, to reach the major milestone of concrete at ground level, typically referred to as elevation 100 feet. The safety-related concrete placed under the Unit 3 CVBH has now reached more than 80 feet and is expected to reach the 100 foot mark in the next few months. All containment vessel fabrication and assembly is on schedule. The Unit 3 lower ring was set into the nuclear island weighing more than 950 tons and rising more than 51 feet high, the lower ring is the second of five modular components that will comprise the AP-1000 containment vessel. In yet another major lift, the CA-05 wall module, made up of steel plates and concrete, was placed into the Unit 3 nuclear island recently to form separate rooms inside the containment vessel. And work is well underway on the foundation for the Unit 3 annex building, which will include functions such as the health physics area, the control support area, access control and personnel facilities. Things are really starting to take shape around here and it's easier to envision what the completed structures will look like. On the operations side, operators are training on the digital control system software known as Ovation and its implementation for Vogel 3 and 4 using the Integrated Maintenance Training System or IMTS. Leading this vital training effort is Dan Cody, Senior Nuclear Plant Instructor. Well the types of systems essentially that we are training on primarily is for the instrument control technicians and what you see behind me are the process trainers that the instrument control technicians would be using to learn their craft or their basic skills if you would. What makes these process trainers unique? Everything that's located or situated on these trainers are microprocessor based for the most part with the AP-1000, it's a digital world and so the instruments and devices that we have on these trainers are capable of communicating digitally as well as analog to the control systems that we're going to have in place. Ovation is actually proven technology, it's been around the power plant industry for many many years, it's proven its reliability and safety and what Ovation actually will do for us in this plant is allow the operators to control the plant from the desktop, they'll be able to actually sit, control it at the click of a mouse, it's going to allow them to see a lot more information, a lot more of the processes that are going on on the field in a very condensed and very concise manner. For an INC technician to come in from the field or once they get hired in, it's essentially about a three year program from the time they come in to the time they essentially graduate with the qualifications that they need to maintain the plant as instrument control technicians. Thanks Dan for showing us around the operations side of things. And the last issue of Vogel Timeline, we featured the detailed Vogel Construction Monitoring Report or VCM process and the team that makes that happen. In August the 11th VCM report was filed with the Georgia Public Service Commission detailing where we stand on the Vogel 3 and 4 project. The good news is known changes were made to the overall projected cost or in service dates for units 3 and 4. Our co-owners continue to play a key role in making the Vogel 3 and 4 project such a success. In our last issue we profiled Oglethorpe Power. This time we'd like to highlight another of our co-owners, the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia or MEAG. MEAG was founded in 1975 as a public power entity initially including 47 Georgia communities. Today MEAG is comprised of 49 communities and partners with Georgia Power for a stake in cold-fired plants Wansley and Shearer and nuclear plants Hatch and Vogel. Here to tell us more about MEAG and the Vogel partnership is Jim Fuller, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. MEAG is excited about Vogel 3 and 4, we've got a mission to provide reliable and cost competitive energy to our participants cities. We like Vogel 3 and 4, it's low cost, low emissions and that's especially important given the EPA's new guidelines on CO2 emissions so it's a very important project to us. We have a very good working relationship with Georgia Power, we've worked with them on existing plants for over 35 years. The Vogel 3 and 4 expansion is a very complicated effort with many moving parts and many decisions on a day-to-day basis. We're pleased with the level of information exchanged with the co-owners. Looking forward we're looking at a very successful endeavor, first new nuclear in the United States in over 30 years. Thanks Jim for that insight into our important partnership with MEAG. Next up the road from Plant Vogel is the Westinghouse Nuclear Fuel Facility located in Columbia, South Carolina. More than 51,000 nuclear fuel assemblies have been produced at this site for worldwide distribution. The fuel rods that will power the AP1000 reactors here at Vogel 3 and 4 will be manufactured at the Columbia facility and loaded into Unit 3 in 2017 and Unit 4 in 2018. More on the story, here's Dave Prack. Westinghouse has a long relationship and tight relationship with Georgia Power and Southern Company. We've done much together, these are Westinghouse style reactors, Vogel 1 and 2. We in Columbia have made the fuel from the very beginning and we continue to work together to improve our performance and the performance of the reactors. Process make nuclear fuels very interesting and many people when they come here are surprised to see what we do and how we do it. We've had some people come in and say gee I thought you had one big machine that took uranium and fuel came out the other end but it's a very complicated process where we start with a chemical process so we take uranium delivered from the customer and we convert that to powder so we have a process. The material comes in a slurry form, will heat it up into a liquid and gas state and then precipitate, separate, dry it out and make powder. Once we have the powder, we'll blend it to the specific enrichment for the customer and then we'll press that into pellets, we have a ceramic process so we'll center pellets almost 1800 degrees C, a sintering process and from the pellets then we'll load those into fuel tubes and make fuel rods and the rods will be ready for building the fuel assemblies. The other part of the plant then we have the components that go with the assemblies so we get parts from suppliers to assemble grids so we have grid straps that will assemble into grids. We assemble nozzles, we'll take those and put those together in what we call skeletons which are the backbone of the fuel assembly and then the rods and the skeletons get married up in our final assembly area to make a fuel assembly that many people have seen and that will get packaged and then shipped ultimately to the end user. I personally have very high hopes for the nuclear industry in the future. This country in particular needs a good stable source of clean energy and I think more and more people are recognizing that nuclear is that source. It's the only practical source that we have today for that too so I really look forward for the growth. I think once I appreciate very much Vogle being the first one I think when Vogle gets online that'll open the door to a lot more growth in the nuclear industry and nuclear power for this country which this country really does need. Well that's all we have time for today. Thanks for joining us on this exciting journey as we bring plans to reality. Take care, stay safe and we'll see you next time for more great stories here on the Vogle Timeline Report.