In 2006 and 2007, Duke Energy paid $14 million to buy 2,023 acres in Cherokee County near Gaffney, S.C., for its proposed William S. Lee Nuclear Station. In 2006 and 2007, Duke Energy paid $14 ...

March 17, 2006 — Southern Company and Duke Power yesterday announced an agreement to jointly evaluate the potential construction of a new nuclear plant at a site in Cherokee County, S.C., which ...

The test facility ... 31 miles from the Shoals area and 14.3 miles from Cherokee, Alabama. TVA canceled construction of two planned nuclear reactors at Yellow Creek in 1984.