Pen Pal Program Empowers Young Minds
2,200. We’re not referring to the number of megawatts one of our nuclear plants produces. Instead, it’s the total number of students and employees who have participated in the pen pal programs at Catawba and McGuire nuclear stations since its start ...
Girl Scouts Help Fill a Vital Role at Robinson Nuclear Plant
More than a dozen Robinson Nuclear Plant volunteers assisted members of Girl Scout Troop 119 with earning their painting badges recently. Each member received her own bird house to paint and take home. They also painted several bird houses for ...
Annual national celebration places focus on nuclear science, careers and education
Last week, Duke Energy hosted a series of local events in communities around the company’s six nuclear plants. More than 125 nuclear professionals across the company’s nuclear fleet met with hundreds of students to give them a lesson on nuclear power ...
Duke Energy donates school supplies to help kick-off the school year
With school back in session, Duke Energy’s nuclear sites are helping needy elementary and middle school students start the year off right with loads of school supplies. Across the fleet, sites sponsored back to school supply drives in an effort to ...
Annual hunting and fishing event draws a big crowd
The 8th Annual National Hunting and Fishing Day event held at the World of Energy in Seneca, S.C. on Saturday, Sept. 20 was a huge success with an estimated 1,500 people in attendance. Children of all ages and their families helped celebrate the great ...
NAYGN "Community Service Week" starts a tradition
Whether it’s cleaning local parks, clearing heavily traveled roads of debris or landscaping the yard of an elderly women, Duke Energy’s North American Young Generation in Nuclear (NAYGN) chapters have started a new tradition! Approximately 75 NAYGN ...
Duke Energy's NAYGN Does it Again!
Duke Energy’s reputation for hiring the brightest and best young professionals in the nuclear power industry is once again taking center stage. Duke Energy's North American Young Generation in Nuclear (NAYGN) organization was recently awarded the ...
Educators Go “WILD” at McGuire Nuclear Station
McGuire Nuclear Station recently hosted 21 local educators for Project WILD Aquatic, an interdisciplinary conservation and environmental education program led by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commissions (NCWRC), which emphasizes awareness, ...
Hundreds Learn that Science is Cool
What do a bed of nails, wind turbines and snakes all have in common? They all played a key role in the events held in celebration of the fourth annual North Carolina Science Festival at McGuire Nuclear Station and Harris Nuclear Plant. April was a ...
You can now join the conversation on Duke Energy's NIC
Duke Energy’s Nuclear Information Center (NIC) will mark an important milestone since its 2011 launch. The NIC will now be open for public comment. With more than 100 stories posted to the NIC since its launch, the vision behind the site has always ...