Community Comes Out by the Thousands to Enjoy Evening At McGuire Nuclear Station
How does a nuclear site know when it’s developed strong relationships with the community and gained the public’s trust? When nearly 11,000 neighbors come to the site for an evening of socializing, eating and listening to a summer concert with the ...
Skilled employees and high-tech robot work together to make repairs at Harris Nuclear Plant
When engineers at Harris Nuclear Plant recently developed plans to make repairs to a small flaw in a nozzle in the top of the plant’s reactor vessel head, they used a high-tech robot to reduce the risk of human error and to ensure precise, consistent, ...
Common Myths About Nuclear Energy
The nuclear energy industry sometimes gets a bad rap. Many of the negative opinions surrounding the public’s thoughts toward nuclear power production are rooted in information that is not factual. Since nuclear energy first became a power source six ...
Plant Spotlight: Harris Nuclear Plant
Harris Nuclear Plant can produce enough electricity to power more than a half million homes, has a 523-foot cooling tower and is made with enough concrete to pave 75 miles of four-lane highway...
Every Week is Robotics Week at a Nuclear Plant
This week marks the fourth annual Robotics Week in America; a week dedicated to inspiring, celebrating and increasing awareness in robotics technology while educating the public about the impacts of the field on society. At Duke Energy, robots are ...
CSI: Duke Energy
A member of the metallurgy team examines a component fracture surface for features indicative of a fatigue failure using a scanning electron microscope. You won’t see them on TV but if you did, their show title might be “CSI: Duke Energy.” The ...
Celebrate “Read Across America” in a Nuclear Way
The importance of reading and related skills cannot be over emphasized. Studies show a love of reading leads to greater success in school and a life-long appreciation for learning. In the nuclear industry where strong science, math and engineering ...
Small, Modular Reactors Driving Nuclear Industry to New Energy Frontiers
Small modular reactors (SMRs) produce 300 megawatts or less of power, and are about one-third the size of conventional nuclear reactors. Like the Mini Coopers of the automotive world, a new generation of mini-nuclear reactors may soon be driving ...
International Nuclear Growth Spurs U.S. Economy
The reactor containment dome of Changjiang 1, a Chinese nuclear unit, is lowered into place (Image: CNECC).
Since 2007, the U.S. economy has been shaking off a deep recession that left many people jobless and companies scrambling to avoid bankruptcy....
Thorium - The Smart Rock
The amount of thorium it would take to provide one individual with all the power to run his or her entire life is the size of a marble. The proposal to use thorium in nuclear reactors has been a tantalizing possibility since the 1970s. Thorium, aptly ...
