Duke Abandons Plans to Build Florida Nuclear Plant

SUGAR LAND--October 13, 2017--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--In late August, only a few days after it abandoned a proposed nuclear plant in South Carolina, Duke Energy Corporation (NYSE:DUK) (Charlotte, North Carolina) announced it was pulling the plug on another long-proposed and oft-delayed nuclear plant, the Levy County Nuclear Power Station in Florida. The proposed Levy project was scheduled to install two Westinghouse AP1000 reactors.