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Description: ��The Watts Bar 1 nuclear reactor is located between Chattanooga and Knoxville on a 1,770-acre site.� The next-to-last reactor in alphabetical sequence, Watts Bar is the last reactor to come on line in the United States (as of December 31, 2002). Watts Bar supplies enough electricity for about 250,000 households in the Tennessee Valley.� Unit 2 was about 80 percent complete when construction stopped in the early 1990s.�

Ownership: It is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).

The Impact of the Nuclear Industry on Tennessee

• News items: The United States (1996) “The Tennessee Valley Authority….”
• Highlights
• Nuclear-provided Electricity Generation
• Competition in the State Electricity Market
• Environmental Trends: Emissions levels
• Various Links to related sites.

Sources: Capacity, for purposes of this report, is the net summer capability as reported in Energy Information Administration (EIA) survey form 860, “Annual Electric Generator Report.” Capacity Factor is a calculation in which the maximum possible generation (based on net summer capability) is divided into the actual generation than multiplied by 100 to get a percentage. Generation is the electricity output reported by plant owners on EIA survey form 902. Type of Unit: All U.S. commercial reactors currently in operation are one of two types: BWR (boiling water reactor) or PWR (pressurized light water reactor). The type is identified in EIA’s Nuclear Power Generation and Fuel Cycle Report. Both the On-line Date and the License Expiration Date are reported annually in Information Digest by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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