page_title: Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant
hierarchical_section_title: Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant
caption_attribution_description: English: Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant. Unit 1. Copied from the NRC web site, which is operated by the US government. [1]
context_page_description: The Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant with a single Westinghouse designed pressurized-water nuclear reactor operated by Duke Energy. It was named in honor of W. Shearon Harris, former president of Carolina Power & Light. Located in New Hill, North Carolina, in the United States, about 20 miles southwest of Raleigh, it generates 900 MWe, has a 523-foot natural draft cooling tower, and uses Harris Lake for cooling. The reactor achieved criticality in January 1987 and began providing power commercially on May 2 of that year.
  The Shearon Harris site was originally designed for four reactors, but cost and weakening demand despite a growing population resulted in three of the reactors being canceled. The final cost approached $3.9B, including safety upgrades mandated after the Three Mile Island accident.
  On November 16, 2006, the operator applied to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a renewal and extension of the plant's operating license.
  The NRC granted the renewal on December 17, 2008, extending the license from forty years to sixty.
context_section_description: The Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant with a single Westinghouse designed pressurized-water nuclear reactor operated by Duke Energy. It was named in honor of W. Shearon Harris, former president of Carolina Power & Light (predecessor of Progress Energy Inc.). Located in New Hill, North Carolina, in the United States, about 20 miles (30 km) southwest of Raleigh, it generates 900 MWe, has a 523-foot (160 m) natural draft cooling tower, and uses Harris Lake for cooling. The reactor achieved criticality in January 1987 and began providing power commercially on May 2 of that year.
  The Shearon Harris site was originally designed for four reactors, but cost and weakening demand despite a growing population resulted in three of the reactors being canceled. The final cost approached $3.9B, including safety upgrades mandated after the Three Mile Island accident.
  On November 16, 2006, the operator applied to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a renewal and extension of the plant's operating license.
  The NRC granted the renewal on December 17, 2008, extending the license from forty years to sixty.
caption: Shearon Harris Unit 1
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