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Nuclear power plants of the Tennessee Valley Authority Name Units Capacity (MWe) Location Year of commission Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant: 3 3,775 Limestone County, Alabama: 1974 Sequoyah Nuclear Plant: 2 2,333 Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee: 1981 Watts Bar Nuclear Plant: 2 2,332 Rhea County, Tennessee: 1996
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is the primary utility in Tennessee which generates electricity and sells it to hundreds of local utilities and industrial customers. [2] Like most of the US, the sources used to generate power in Tennessee have changed substantially in the last decade.
Sequoyah's two units have a winter net dependable capacity of 2,440 megawatts, [2] making Sequoyah the most productive of TVA's three nuclear plants.Sequoyah is the second-most powerful power plant in Tennessee, after the Cumberland Fossil Plant northwest of Nashville, but actually generates more power. [3]
The Watts Bar Nuclear Plant is a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) nuclear reactor pair used for electric power generation. It is located on a 1,770-acre (7.2 km²) site in Rhea County, Tennessee, near Spring City, between Chattanooga and Knoxville. Watts Bar supplies enough electricity for about 1.2 million households in the Tennessee Valley.
Apr. 27—The Tennessee Valley Authority has completed its biggest equipment upgrade in part of its oldest and biggest nuclear power plant. More than 500 extra TVA contractors and employees worked ...
Nuclear Fuel Services works with TVA, Y-12. ... to convert more than 20 tons of highly enriched uranium to low enriched uranium for use in the Tennessee Valley Authority's nuclear power plants. ...
Comments on Tennessee Valley Authority's proposed reactors at the Clinch River Reactor site are due April 4.
The nuclear power plant is named after a ferry that operated at the site until the middle of the 20th century. (Brown's Ferry) Browns Ferry was TVA's first nuclear power plant; its approval occurred on June 17, 1966 and construction began in September 1966. [2] In 1974, the time of its initial operation, it was the largest nuclear plant in the ...