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    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...
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    production. TVA began irradiating tritium-producing rods at its Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in 2003. As of February 2007, TVA had no plans to produce tritium...
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  • Watts Bar may refer to: Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Watts Bar Dam Watts Bar Steam Plant Watts Bar Lake This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct...
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  • newest nuclear reactors in the US at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, unit 2 being the first to begin operation in the 21st century. After Watts Bar Unit 2 began...
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    site of Watts Bar Nuclear Plant and Watts Bar Dam. The plant was the first coal-fired power plant constructed by TVA. The Watts Bar Steam Plant consisted...
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    post office (ZIP code 37880). The nearby TVA Watts Bar nuclear plant (in bordering Rhea County), and Watts Bar Dam spanning the Tennessee River across the...
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    at the 2010 census. The town is located along Watts Bar Lake, and Watts Bar Dam and the Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station are nearby. Spring City began...
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  • "Vital Statistics". TVA.com. Moderator, Author (October 21, 2014). "Watts Bar – Making History In Yet Another Century". {{cite web}}: |first= has generic...
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    Bellefonte Nuclear Generating Station (BLN) is an unfinished nuclear power plant in Hollywood, Alabama, United States. A total of four nuclear reactors...
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    by Units 1 and 2 at Watts Bar. Vogtle Units 3 & 4 were brought online in 2023 and 2024, respectively. In June 2008, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission...
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    Tennessee. The two newest civilian nuclear power reactors in the United States are located at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant. Unit 1 began operation in 1996...
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    Tennessee River List of crossings of the Tennessee River Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station "Watts Bar Dam". National Performance of Dams Program, National...
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  • Mountain Pumped-Storage Plant Redbud Dam South Holston Dam Sycamore Dam Tellico Dam Tims Ford Dam Upper Bear Creek Dam Watauga Dam Watts Bar Dam Wheeler Dam Wilbur...
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    Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station became the first US reactor to enter commercial operation since 1996. Research into the peaceful uses of nuclear...
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    eia.gov. Retrieved 12 February 2020. "Electricity Data Browser - Watts Bar Nuclear Plant". www.eia.gov. Retrieved 12 February 2020. "Electricity Data Browser...
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    home to the first nuclear power reactor in the U.S. to begin operation in the 21st century, which is at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in Rhea County. Tennessee...
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  • Nuclear Power Plant The Gravelines Nuclear Power Station The Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant The Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant The Ōi Nuclear Power Plant The...
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    Tennessee Valley Authority (category Nuclear power companies of the United States)
    addition, the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant is the only facility in the country to industrially produce tritium, which is used by the National Nuclear Security Administration...
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    Site now extracts tritium, but using targets irradiated at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in Tennessee, so the heat discharge associated with tritium production...
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    Phipps Bend Nuclear Plant was a planned nuclear power generation facility that was to be constructed and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)...
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  • during his tenure, TVA completed construction on the first unit at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant and transferred responsibility for funding its U.S. taxpayer programs...
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    Tritium (category Nuclear fusion fuels)
    boron, cadmium, or hafnium), at the reactors of the commercial Watts Bar Nuclear Plant from 2003 to 2005 followed by extraction of tritium from the rods...
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  • energy transformers. Economics of nuclear power plants Integrated Nuclear Fuel Cycle Information System List of nuclear power stations List of boiling water...
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    local anti-nuclear groups and then-Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo, it was announced that the plant would shut down by 2021. The plant permanently...
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    1970s, and 1980s. TVA ordered 7 nuclear power plants to combat this. These plants include Browns Ferry, Sequoyah, Watts Bar, Bellefonte, Phipps Bend, Yellow...
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    Ferry Nuclear Plant in northern Alabama. Tennessee is home to the two newest civilian nuclear power reactors in the United States, at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant...
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    Helium-3 (category Nuclear fusion fuels)
    the tritium extracted. Currently only two commercial nuclear reactors (Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Units 1 and 2) are being used for tritium production but...
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  • development of nuclear power in the United States. By 1976, however, many nuclear plant proposals were no longer viable due to a slower rate of growth in electricity...
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    reactors (BWR) designed by General Electric. In 2016, unit 2 at the Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station came online and is likely to be the last generation...
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    concurrently with SR 304. It then crosses Watts Bar Dam and the Tennessee River into Rhea County near the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant and continues west. The route then...
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