During the energy crisis of the 1970’s, power companies were scrambling to build new nuclear power plants all over the country. That all stopped after the Three Mile Island incident, and the Cherokee facility is no exception. After construction was abandoned in 1983, a local filmmaker bought the property from Duke Power and showed it James Cameron, who later decided to use this as the film set for his upcoming movie “The Abyss”. The site is now back under the control of Duke Power and Southern Company, who plan to redevelop the site for one of the first new nuclear power plants in over 30 years. Rumor has it that the Deepcore movie set has been destroyed and removed from the site.

Roland and I decided to check out this place on Saturday afternoon and we didn’t realize that it was a nice 2 mile hike through the woods, so we forgot to bring water. On top of that, we were dodging the security patrol that came around every 28 minutes like clockwork. But all of that trouble was well worth it as we finally got to see Deepcore in all its movie set glory.