Duke Energy’s Brunswick Nuclear Plant with reactor building in the background.
Brunswick Nuclear Plant, Duke Energy
Aerial image of the Brunswick Nuclear Plant diversion structure, where water entering the intake canal is filtered for large animals and debris.
Brunswick Nuclear Plant, nestled in 1,200 acres of forest and waterways.
Ashley Fuller, a chemistry technician at Brunswick Nuclear Plant, assists this turtle who accidently got too close to the plant. The turtle was caught and released on Caswell Beach.
Aerial image of Brunswick Nuclear Plant showing the outfall canal in the foreground.
Here water leaves the Brunswick Nuclear Plant at the rate of about one million gallons per minute. The water circulates through the plant to provide cooling and then is returned to the Atlantic Ocean via a canal. The foam on the canal is the a result of the churning the water undergoes.