Catawba Nuclear Power Station

Mike Glover, station manager at the Duke Catawba Nuclear Power Station, stands by a large turbine on the turbine floor at the nuclear plant near York, S.C., Monday, Oct. 11, 2004. The concrete moat under construction at the station south of Charlotte has little to do with the utility's plans to start burning mixed-oxide fuel containing small amounts of weapons-grade plutonium next spring. Designed to prevent everything from passenger cars to military tanks from getting too close to the reactor.