Duke Energy Plans Lake For Cherokee County Nuclear Plant

A North Carolina utility plans to create a 620-acre lake to provide water for a proposed nuclear reactor in Cherokee County.

By: Associated Press & Charlotte Observer | News Channel 7
Published: September 29, 2009

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina utility plans to create a 620-acre lake to provide water for a proposed nuclear reactor in northern South Carolina.
The Charlotte Observer reported Tuesday that Duke Energy wants to build a backup water supply for the proposed reactor along the Broad River in Cherokee County, S.C.
The industrial lake would supplement a smaller water supply created during Duke's first attempt to build a nuclear plant at the site, an effort stopped in 1982.
Duke has not made a final decision on building the reactor.
Utility spokeswoman Rita Sipe says the company is reviewing the water needed to cool the proposed reactor.
Tom Clements with Friends of the Earth in Columbia says the demands for the nuclear plant and a new coal-fired plant farther upstream could damage the river.

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