Nuclear Facilities Remain Safe and Secure 11 Years Later
Since September 11, 2001, the nuclear industry has made a number of security enhancements to make nuclear plants events safer. Although regarded as one of the securest facilities in the world prior to 9/11, the industry has spent nearly $2 billion ...
Radiation Protection for Nuclear Employees
At every nuclear station in the country, radiation protection (RP) teams work daily to control and reduce the amount of occupational radiation exposure workers receive while performing various jobs in the plant. All nuclear employees take radiation ...
New Plant Equipment Ensures Safe and Reliable Service for Years to Come
This fall, McGuire Nuclear Station will power down one of its units as it undergoes a refueling outage. Although outages occur every 18 months and are critical to the operation of the plant, this outage is perhaps even more significant because McGuire ...
By Land or By Boat, Thousands Attend McGuire's Summer Concert
Rain or shine, the show must go on! Luckily, it was shine, and more than 8,000 people enjoyed the sounds of the Charlotte Symphony on June 22 on the EnergyExplorium lawn, and by boat as the sun set over Lake Norman. Musicians played for a little over ...
Dam Safety is an Important Focus for Nuclear and Fossil Generation Stations
Utilities build large thermal electric generating stations next to lakes or rivers. These water sources provide needed cooling for plant systems that generate electricity with turbine generators. Duke Energy built Oconee Nuclear Station on Lake ...
Decommissioning: A Safe and Systematic Process for Retiring Nuclear Plants
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) typically grants a license to nuclear power plants for a period of 40 years. Before the end of the original license period, the utility can seek to renew the operating license of the plant or cease operations ...
Duke Energy Responds to Fukushima
Part 2 - Read part 1 here Today is the one-year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated several regions of Japan and left the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in distress. In this second part of our two-part series on Fukushima, ...
Fukushima One Year Later - The U.S. Nuclear Industry Responds
Sunday, March 11 marks the one-year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated several regions of Japan and left the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in distress. While the earthquake and tsunami killed and displaced thousands of ...
Stuxnet and Cybersecurity
When Duke Energy’s first nuclear reactor began operation in 1973, “cybersecurity” was a term that most people had never heard of. Today, not only is cybersecurity top of mind, October has been designated as National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. The ...
An Industry Perspective on Groundwater Monitoring Programs
The nuclear industry is built upon numerous and redundant safety systems and measures to protect public health and safety, plant personnel and equipment. One such protective system present across all U.S. nuclear power plants is a robust environmental ...