Progress Energy.
RALEIGH Raleigh (rôl`ē, räl`ē), city (1990 pop. 207,951), state capital, and seat of Wake co., central N.C.; the site was selected for the capital in 1788, and the city was laid out and inc. 1792. -- Progress Energy requested federal approval for a second
nuclear reactor nuclear reactor, device for producing controlled release of nuclear energy. Reactors can be used for research or for power production. A research reactor is designed to produce various beams of radiation for experimental application; the heat produced is a waste at its Shearon Harris Harris, Scotland: see Lewis and Harris. plant by 2020. No cost estimate
was given, but other utilities have estimated that similar reactors
would run $6 billion to $9 billion.
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