Duke Energy Inspires Young Minds during National Nuclear Science Week
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 ...
Harris Energy Education Center Evolves Over the Past 25 Years
Harris Nuclear Plant The Energy and Environmental Center at the Harris Nuclear Plant has undergone many facelifts since the mid-1980s when it first opened. That was a few years before the Harris Plant, located about 20 miles south of downtown Raleigh, ...
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, ...
Nuclear Fuel: What do we do with that stuff?
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 ...
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...
Prime Fishing at Harris Lake
On a recent warm afternoon, Duke Energy biologist Tom Thompson pulled up to a boat ramp on Harris Lake in New Hill, N.C., where an angler was eager to show him his catch: a net full of large crappie, each weighing about a pound or greater. Harris ...
A Peek into the History of Duke Energy’s Nuclear Fleet
In1957 the country’s first commercial nuclear power plant began generating electricity. Shippingport Power Station reliably supplied nuclear energy to the Pittsburgh area for 25 years before being retired in 1982. Shippingport broadened opportunities ...
In This Industry, Partnerships Are Key - Part 1
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 ...
Duke Energy and Progress Energy Merge Nuclear Fleets
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 ...