The Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Unit 2 began a scheduled refueling and maintenance outage this past Saturday, after producing more than 6.2 billion kilowatt-hours of ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA’s) newest nuclear plant, Watts Bar Unit 2, achieved initial criticality on May 23 at 2:16 a.m. Although that may sound ominous to anyone untrained in nuclear ...

“Removing all four of Unit 2’s original steam generators and installing the four upgraded models, which weigh more than 800,000 pounds each, is a significant engineering and operational project that ...

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 demand ...

A fault in the main transformer used to boost the electricity produced by Watts Bar Unit 2 to grid transmission voltage caused a fire in the oil that cools the transformer. As a result of the fault, ...

SPRING CITY (WATE) – Tennessee Valley Authority is celebrating the completion of the first new nuclear unit in the United States in the 21st Century. TVA said Unit 2 of Watts Bar Nuclear Plant has ...

Crews are working to determine what caused a transformer fire Tuesday evening at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant. The Tennessee Valley Authority said the fire at an onsite switchyard was reported around 9 ...