Is it good to put a &nbsp; inside an empty <td>?

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Published on 2010-03-24T08:56:54Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 9:13 UTC
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If this is the structure:

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
   <tr>
      <td>I don't need anything here, should I always put a &nbsp; here?</td>
      <td>item </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>model</td>
      <td>one</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>model</td>
      <td>two</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>model</td>
      <td>three</td>
   </tr>
</table>

How will a screen reader read a blank td? Is it semantically correct?

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