Construction was suspended on Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Unit 2 in the late 1980s, and the plant sat idle for more than 20 years. Now, through equipment refurbishment and replacement, Unit 2 is on track ...

A main bank transformer fire has put a halt to power ascension testing at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA’s) Watts Bar Unit 2 nuclear plant. The incident occurred at about 9:10 p.m., on August ...

After decades of development, Tennessee Valley Authority announced Watts Bar Unit 2 has completed a series of power ascension tests and reliably operated at full power for more than three weeks. The ...

Construction on Spring City, Tennessee’s 1,150-MW Watts Bar Unit 2 officially wrapped Thursday as the Tennessee Valley Authority received the nuclear reactor’s operating license. “This achievement ...

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 ...

Watts Bar Unit 2 (WB2), the first nuclear reactor completed in the United States since 1996, has begun producing 100% of its rated power. The Tennessee Valley Authority, the plant's owner and operator ...

Federal regulators today approved an operating license for TVA's Watts Bar Unit 2, allowing the first new American nuclear plant to begin operation in nearly two decades. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority has requested that regulators issue an operating licence for unit 2 of the Watts Bar nuclear power plant. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has requested that ...

After operating at full power for more than three weeks and producing more than 500 million kilowatt hours of emission free electricity, Watts Bar Unit 2 has been declared to be in full commercial ...

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 ...