Catawba Nuclear Power Station

Mike Glover, station manager at the Duke Catawba Nuclear Power Station, stands above the spent fuel pool at the plant near York, S.C., Monday, Oct. 11, 2004. Used uranium is cooled and stored in the pool. 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.