Back in 1996, Watts Bar Unit 1 was the last reactor completed in the United States, at a hefty $6.8 billion. No other reactors have come online since. In fact, according to the NRC, eight US reactors ...

Fire crews from across Doncaster spent nearly three hours tackling a blaze which broke out at a city industrial unit.

Unit 2 senior manager of operations Tom Wallace stands inside the unit 2 cooling tower of TVA's Watts Bar nuclear plant Wednesday, April 29, 2015, in Spring City, Tenn.

SPRING CITY, Tenn. -- Nearly 43 years after construction began, the Unit 2 reactor at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant got an operating license Thursday to become the first new American nuclear power ...

1. Better late than never. Construction on Watts Bar Unit 2 originally began in the 1970s. After a long interruption, the unit is currently forecast to begin commercial operation in 2015.

The original steam generators on Watts Bar Unit 1 were replaced in 2006. For the steam generator replacement project alone, the team made more than 4,000 welds, and poured more than 850,000 pounds ...

When the transformer failed at the Spring City site, Watts Bar Unit 2 was automatically taken offline, according to a post on TVA's website. Unit 2 is the first new nuclear reactor in the U.S. in ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Unit 1 safely began a scheduled refueling and maintenance outage late Friday evening after generating more than 14 billion kilowatt-hours ...

Watts Bar Unit 2 has had a long and storied history. Ground was broken for the plant in 1973. However, construction was suspended in 1985 due to slower electricity demand growth, rising ...