Weakened Hurricane Florence Spared Most Southeast U.S. Nuclear Plants
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Out of the nine nuclear reactors that were potentially in the path of Florence before the storm landed Friday, just one was forced to close.
Duke Energy Corp.’s two Brunswick reactors on the southern coast of North Carolina were shut down Thursday in advance of the storm and are still down, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Florence made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane, and has since weakened to a tropical depression.