 This is Vogel Timeline with your host, Joe Washington. It's hard to believe it's been more than two years since we began to see Vogel 3 and 4 rise from the landscape here near Augusta, Georgia. What a busy and productive year this has been. Year to date, over 4 million work hours have been logged at this site. Needless to say, there's never a quiet moment around here. Let's check in with Buzz Miller, president of Southern Nuclear Development for an update on what's been achieved so far in 2013. 2013 has been a fabulous year for this project. We have made a lot of progress on a lot of fronts. As most of our employees and people know, we have three main focus areas. First is always to build this plant safely and with a quality built in. We have to do it right. Secondly, is to make sure we do all the prudent things we need to do to get recovery of this project from our public service commission. And the third thing is get ready to run this plant. On the building this plant safely and in a quality manner, we are just proceeding along in rapid fashion. We have poured the base mats this year for both units 3 and 4, which is a fantastic accomplishment. We have started turbine building construction and we're going vertical on unit 3, unit 4 turbine buildings proceeding, the cooling towers are proceeding well, so we're very happy with where we are. The next big milestone will be setting CA-20, which is about an 1,100 ton module and as we speak we're finishing assembly of that module. So in summary, the progress we've made this year will carry over into next year. We are on track to bringing these units online in 2017 and 2018. We're on track for loading fuel in unit 3 in 2017 and so the project is on a path for success to bring incredible benefits to our customers. Thanks Buzz. 2013 has been a very busy year indeed. Major milestones are reached on a weekly basis and all of the pieces are beginning to come together as we continue to see great progress here at Plant Vogel. Let's look back at some of the highlights. In March of this year we saw the placement of the first nuclear concrete for unit 3, creating a six foot thick base mat foundation. A team of 500 workers completed the task over the course of 41 consecutive hours. Almost 7,000 yards of concrete were used to create the base mat. In April, the CR-10 cradle was the first major module component to be lifted and set in place on the site. Over the summer, the placement of the containment vessel bottom head for unit 3 took place. Consisting of 58 steel plates and weighing approximately 900 tons, this was one of many big lifts accomplished. The cooling towers have continued to rise upwards day by day. The unit 3 cooling tower is now more than 107 feet high and unit 4 is not far behind as the fifth and final lift for the central riser will soon be put in place. These components are delivered on a routine basis now. This year we saw the arrival of the reheaters, deaerators for both units and most recently the transformers which arrived on our rail system and were lifted onto crawlers to be stored until ready for placement. Just recently the unit 3 condenser and CA-04 module were set in place. CA-04 will house the nuclear reactor for unit 3. It's been a busy year here, but the work doesn't slow down as we continue to make great progress. In fact just last month the base mat concrete for unit 4 was completed in preparation for the containment vessel bottom head placement. Let's go to David Keach, construction and compliance manager for more details. The planning for the unit 4 base mat placement began even before we finished unit 3 base mat. Some of the things that would have went into that one was the resources and consortium views, the timing, the schedule, but additionally the lessons learned that we were able to pull from the unit 3 base mat. Thanks David. It's not just about construction over here. While dramatic things are happening daily on the site there's also a core team of plant operators training on all digital system controls to operate units 3 and 4. The AP-1000 is the latest in nuclear technology. This will not only be among the first nuclear generating facilities constructed in this country in three decades. It will also be the first to use all digital controls to operate and monitor the plant systems. Here's Chris Hanemichael, Vogel 3 and 4's digital systems project manager with more on this unique feature. So the traditional plants like Vogel 1 and 2 operate mainly on analog systems. Vogel 3 and 4 it will be all digital and the comparison that I use with a lot of people is the analog clock versus a digital clock. An analog clock you have the minute hand and the second hand and the hour hand and you may or may not know exactly what time it is. It may show to 10 or to 11 whereas a digital clock you know exactly what time it is and you know exactly down to the unit because it is that precise. One of the biggest advantages of having all digital systems is that it's easier to operate for the operators. So my role as a digital systems project manager is all oversight. My group provides oversight of the vendors and the sub-vendors providing us with digital systems. That starts at the design phase, to the testing phase, to the shipping phase, to the installation phase and back through testing again. We have to make sure that the digital systems that we get are per the licensing basis and they do meet our regulatory guidelines. Thanks Chris. The control room for each unit will be strategically located between the turbine building and containment building and from there the operators will run the facility. They've been training on this for years and now 40 licensed operator candidates and 4 operations training instructors have completed their training and will soon be awarded certification on the AP1000 reactor. Next, they will earn their AP1000 operator licenses from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, some of the first ever issued by that agency. This year many important visitors toured Plant Vogel including Nuclear Regulatory Commission members William Ostendorf and Chairman Allison McFarland as well as a delegation all away from China. As we say goodbye to this year, we anticipate many exciting new milestones ahead in 2014. We look forward to keeping you up to date on the latest amazing things happening here as we lead America's nuclear renaissance. From all of us at Plant Vogel, we wish you a safe, healthy and happy new year. Follow Georgia Power on Twitter at Georgia Power and Twitter at Southern Nuclear and also at Georgia Power and Southern Nuclear on Facebook.