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Template:Nuke-NRC2 The Watts Bar nuclear power plant is located between Chattanooga, Tennessee and Knoxville, Tennessee on a 1,770 acre (7 km²) site. The next-to-last reactor in alphabetical sequence, as of June 14 2006 Watts Bar 1 was the last civilian reactor to come on-line in the United States. Watts Bar supplies enough electricity for about 250,000 households in the Tennessee Valley.
This plant has one Westinghouse pressurized water reactor, one of two whose construction commenced in 1973. Unit 1 was completed in 1996.
Unit 2 was about 80% complete when its construction was stopped in 1988. The official reason given was a decrease in demand for electricity, but the decision was hailed as a victory by anti-nuclear activists. As of 2006, Watts Bar 2 remains partly completed.
External links
- TVA web page on Watts Bar.
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