JENKINSVILLE — Nuclear power has been a part of this community’s fabric for 50 years.In 1958, South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. and three other utilities received a license from the federal government to build a 17-megawatt test reactor here.The reactor — the first of its kind in the Southeast — was built next to SCE&G’s Parr Hydro Station, along the Broad River, by the Carolinas-Virginia Nuclear Power Associates.Joining the Columbia-headquartered utility in the experiment were Duke Energy, Carolina Power & Light and Virginia Electric and Power.Construction on the $30 million project began in October 1960.
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