Timeline: How Georgia and South Carolina nuclear reactors ran so far off course

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Unit 3 begins loading radi South Carolina Unit 4 reaches key testing phase.

Unit 4 may reach full power output by May 27; Unit 3 will begin generating electricity in 2023.

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