Georgia Power and Southern Nuclear, the companies building the Vogtle-3 and -4 nuclear plants in the southern US, have revised schedules for pre-commissioning tests because of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Georgia Power said in a statement that structural integrity and integrated leak rate tests are now planned to take place before cold hydrostatic testing.

Cold hydrostatic testing, which was scheduled initially for July 2020, will now be pushed back to the autumn of 2020, the statement said.