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TVA to start Watts Bar
The Tennessee Valley Authority plans to start a nuclear chain reaction within its newest reactor this month as it moves toward adding the first new atomic unit to America's power grid in two decades by this summer. The startup of the Unit 2 reactor at the Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant near Spring City, will add 1,411 megawatts of carbon-free electricity generation, or enough power to supply two cities the size of Chattanooga. With a $4.7 billion price tag The NRC in March questioned the way TVA was handling employee safety concerns voiced by some operators at Watts Bar Unit 1 when the new reactor was being tested and work done for its completion. Grimes said a meeting is being arranged later this month with regulators to help assess TVA's progress, but he said those concerns should not raise any public fears over the Unit 2 completion or TVA's attention to safety. More than 1,100 workers continue to be employed at Watts Bar Unit 2, although that number should be cut in half once the plant is finished, tested and begins its 18-month fuel cycle run. "We remain as dubious as ever about moving forward with Watts Bar Unit 2, for both economic and safety reasons," said Louis A. Zeller, executive director of the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League. "It just takes a millisecond to go from having a multi-billion-dollar nuclear asset to having a multi-billion-dollar-disaster when an accident happens."
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