Throughout this past year, I bet you didn’t realize that something big was happening in a small town in Georgia.

Something that has employed more than 7,000 workers since the project’s beginning and is the first technology of its kind in the U.S.

I’m talking about Units 3 and 4 of Plant Vogtle, the first completely new nuclear reactors to be built in the U.S. in over 30 years.

In a year that brought us new trends, a royal wedding and the union and quick dissolution of this year’s second most talked about couple, 2018 marked some exciting updates for this project, which is projected to be fully online by November 2022.

As the year concludes, we’ve broken down five things you need to know about these landmark reactors that will soon be a massive generator of carbon-free energy for Georgia and the entire Southeast.