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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

/Duke says future will be nuclear

New nuclear plants remain Duke Energy's best large-scale power option for the Carolinas despite obstacles, a utility executive told an industry audience Tuesday.
Duke must replace its aging fleet of nuclear and coal-fired plants by 2050, said Christopher Fallon, the company's vice president for nuclear development, at the Nuclear Construction Summit in Charlotte. Each technology produces about half of Duke's energy.
The utility plans to build a two-unit nuclear plant, its first since the mid-1980s, near Gaffney, S.C. The plant would start operating about 2021. Duke is also mulling construction of a nuclear facility in Ohio.

Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/10/27/1789184/duke-says-future-will-be-nuclear.html#ixzz13ZdGxwpc

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