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A shopping trip turned chaotic for a 79-year-old woman in Verulam as her car crashed through a closed bar’s doors.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Fire crews from across Doncaster spent nearly three hours tackling a blaze which broke out at a city industrial unit.