Watts Bar Nuclear Plant - Wikipedia
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.
Watts Bar Nuclear Plant
2024年11月8日 · Watts Bar Nuclear Plant. The plant is located on 1,700 acres on the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir near Spring City, in East Tennessee. Each unit produces about 1,150 megawatts of electricity—enough to service 650,000 homes—without creating any carbon emissions.
TVA updates Watts Barr residents on nuclear plant emergency prep
2022年12月15日 · Every year, TVA releases updated emergency prep information to residents within a 10-mile radius of its nuclear power plants, including Watts Bar in East Tennessee.
Watts Bar Unit 1 Begins Scheduled Refueling, Maintenance Outage
2024年11月8日 · Watts Bar Unit 1 is one of seven operational TVA nuclear reactors. TVA’s nuclear fleet is the third largest in the nation, safely and reliably providing more than 40% of all electricity TVA generates. Combined with other parts of TVA’s diverse generation system, nuclear power is the major contributor as the agency works to be net-zero by 2050.
History Of Watts Bar Unit 2 Reactivation | NRC.gov
2021年3月24日 · The Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant (WBN) is located in southeastern Tennessee approximately 50 miles northeast of Chattanooga, and is owned by Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The site has two Westinghouse-designed pressurized water reactors.
Watts Bar Unit 2 Complete and Commercial - TVA.com
Watts Bar Unit 2 is TVA’s seventh operating nuclear reactor delivering carbon-free energy to the Tennessee Valley, helping to generate enough clean electricity to power 4.5 million homes.
Watts Bar Nuclear Plant - TVA.com
Watts Bar Nuclear Plant is located just south of Watts Bar Reservoir on the Tennessee River near Spring City in east Tennessee. It is TVA’s third nuclear power plant. Construction began in 1973, and Unit 1 began full commercial operation in 1996.
Watts Bar becomes America's first new nuclear reactor of the …
2016年10月19日 · SPRING CITY, Tenn. - America's first new nuclear reactor of the 21st century was declared complete on Wednesday, helping the Tennessee Valley Authority to meet nearly half of its electricity ...
First new U.S. nuclear reactor in almost two decades set to begin ...
2016年6月14日 · Watts Bar Unit 2 is the first nuclear plant in the United States to meet new regulations from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that were established after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant in Japan.
How TVA Watts Bar in East Tennessee prepares for nuclear …
2024年1月3日 · Every two years, federal regulators come to East Tennessee to grade a full-scale emergency response drill at TVA's Sequoyah and Watts Bar nuclear plants, which together supply around 45% of...