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WELCOME TO ENERGIZED! This is the story of the nuclear industry in North and South Carolina. You probably know there are nuclear power plants in both states. You might know that there are seven plants housing 12 reactors in the two states. But there likely is much that you don't know about the industry that you ought to.

Here are some of those things. Right now, nuclear plants provide more than 50% of South Carolina's electricity and about 32% of North Carolina's. Those numbers are likely to grow, as utilities in the two states have applied for permission to build six more reactors. In South Carolina, SCANA, through its S.C. Electric & Gas subsidiary, and Santee Cooper have begun construction on two reactors at their V.C. Summer Nuclear Station near Jenkinsville.

But here is what you most need to know about nuclear power in...