Crisis could cool S.C. plans

Sammy Fretwell

Atomic energy boosters, who note the nuclear industry employs thousands of workers, say it is unfair to compare the Palmetto State’s atomic plant sites to Japan’s. They say South Carolina’s sites are less likely to experience devastating earthquakes than sites in Japan, even though tremors sometimes shake the Palmetto State. South Carolina has nuclear power plants in four counties: Oconee, Darlington, Fairfield and York.