DUKE ENERGY® | illumination Stories that enlighten, inform and inspire Feb 13, 2025
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See how a nuclear power plant refuels
While nuclear power plants produce low-carbon energy around the clock, every 18 to 24 months the plants shut down for roughly a month for maintenance, inspections and refueling. Scheduled refueling outages result in greater efficiency and reliability...
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Programs offer help for managing energy costs during cold weather
She didn’t want to ask for help. All her life, Melissa Agnew promised herself if she ever had kids, she would give them a better childhood than the one she had, that they wouldn’t know poverty like she did, that they wouldn’t have to wonder, like she...
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How Share the Warmth helped avert crisis
She didn’t want to ask for help. All her life, Melissa Agnew promised herself if she ever had kids, she would give them a better childhood than the one she had, that they wouldn’t know poverty like she did, that they wouldn’t have to wonder, like she...
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Security officer finds fulfillment with Naval Reserves
Richard Pierce found a job he loves but he yearned to do more.   A self-described hyperkinetic, Pierce, working security at Catawba Nuclear Station in South Carolina, was used to juggling multiple commitments. When he worked as an officer for 15 years...
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