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posted by janrinok on Wednesday October 26 2016, @04:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the duke-nukem-forever dept.

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.

coverage:

previously:
US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday October 26 2016, @01:50PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday October 26 2016, @01:50PM (#418969) Journal

    I favor renewables over any other form of electricity generation because it is easiest on the environment and can be generated where you are. Nuclear is not bad, though, if you do it right. France gets almost all of its electricity from nuclear. New York State gets a little more than a third. A lot of people who holler about Fukushima and Chernobyl do their hollering on computers running on, and in rooms lit by, electricity from nuclear power plants that they never hear about or think about because the plants are properly regulated and maintained. And certainly almost no Americans consider that without nuclear power the subs and aircraft carriers that protect them, couldn't.

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  • (Score: 1) by In hydraulis on Thursday October 27 2016, @03:38AM

    by In hydraulis (386) on Thursday October 27 2016, @03:38AM (#419266)

    the [nuclear power] plants are properly regulated and maintained

    Aren't they all? Until we learn they're not, of course. See: every major incident so far.

    Mind you, I'm a supporter.