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On a clear day, you can easily see the Harris Nuclear Plant’s 523-foot high cooling tower from downtown Raleigh, about 20 miles away. However, if you drive 180 miles southeast to the Brunswick Nuclear Plant in Southport, N.C., you won’t see a cooling tower. Since both are nuclear power plants, why does only one have a cooling tower?

Last week, dozens of nuclear professionals across Duke Energy’s nuclear fleet met with hundreds of students to give them a lesson on nuclear power as part of National Nuclear Science Week. Teammates flocked to local schools while others welcomed ...

All nuclear power reactors use uranium fuel to generate electricity. This fuel consists of small ceramic pellets stacked into metal fuel rods, which are bound together into fuel assemblies that are eight to 12 feet in length. Once fuel has been used ...

Engineering, nuclear science, environmental science, chemistry. No, they’re not just subjects some of our nuclear teammates majored in as college students, but in fact, represent just a few of the Boy Scout merit badges taught at McGuire, Catawba and ...

Photo of a hidden adversary The assault team is settled on the wood line on a night with no moon. They are fine tuning their approach route, waiting for the right opportunity. In a few short seconds, they are identified, assessed and engaged by the ...

The success of the nuclear industry relies on a plethora of community and professional partnerships. Nuclear professionals build relationships and work closely with others outside the industry to inform and protect the public, recruit new talent for ...

On July 2, Duke Energy and Progress Energy completed their merger, making the new Duke Energy the biggest U.S. electric utility – based on market capital­ization, generation capacity and number of custom­ers. The new company will have approximately ...

On April 4 at 8:12 p.m., Catawba Nuclear Station lost offsite power and an unusual event was declared. Power has been restored to the station and the unusual event emergency classification was terminated at 1:37 a.m. The station’s diesel generators ...

[slideshow]Imagine more than 10,000 people sitting on a large manicured lawn listening to the sounds of the symphony. Now imagine the setting for this event is on the lawn of a nuclear power plant. Highly unheard of, right? Although not typical for ...

Recently, the world was invited to view the hatching of a special nest of eggs. The eggs belonged to a family of Ospreys currently nesting at Catawba Nuclear Station. Ospreys are large, beautiful birds of prey, who build their nests on manmade ...