Various news outlets report that Unit 2 of the Watts Bar nuclear power plant, owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), has begun operation. The reactor is rated at 1.15 GW and cost $4.7 billion ($4.09 per watt). Ground was broken on the project in 1973; construction work was suspended from 1985 to 2007.
Watts Bar Unit 1, which began operation in 1996, is one of three plants which manufacture tritium under contract to the U.S. government for use in hydrogen bombs.
Around the United States, 99 other commercial nuclear reactors are in operation and four others are under construction:
[...] Scana Corp./SCE&G's V.C. Summer Units 2 and 3 in South Carolina and Southern Co.'s Vogtle Units 3 and 4 in Georgia.
In related news, the TVA is taking bids for its unfinished Bellefonte Nuclear Generating Station in fabulous Hollywood, Alabama. It has received a bid of $38 million.
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US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 26 2016, @05:08AM
There are a lot of plants like this one out there. 'Almost done' but never to be finished.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 26 2016, @11:11AM
So it's like GitHub for nuclear power plants?