His homemade breeder reactor emitted dangerously high levels ... Hahn’s obsession with nuclear physics began at age 15, leading him to conduct increasingly ambitious experiments.

BELEWS CREEK, N.C. — Duke Energy is moving forward with a groundbreaking plan to add a nuclear energy reactor to the Triad. There are already three nuclear power plants in North Carolina ...

Unions and business leaders have welcomed the proposed changes in planning rules that could make it easier to construct new nuclear reactors, but environmentalists hit out at the plans.