Construction monitors: Plant Vogtle delays result of new technology

If the nuclear expansion at Plant Vogtle were still on its original schedule, workers would be loading fuel into the reactors by now and preparing to go into service, an expert witness testified Tuesday. But William Jacobs, an independent monitor keeping track of the $14.5 billion project, wouldn’t take the bait when lawyers for environmental and consumer-advocacy groups asked whether the 39-month delay plaguing Georgia Power Co. and its utility partners resulted from unreasonable or imprudent…