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dug out of the earth

When Electric Energy Inc. cranked out its first commercial power in August 1953, it was home to the world's largest turbines and tallest towers to move high voltage across the Ohio River to a massive nuclear plant west of Paducah.

 

Transmission lines across Ohio River to USEC plant are on towers 478 feet high and 4,000 feet apart .

 

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