Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

Watts Bar, TVA’s third nuclear power plant, is located on 1,700 acres beside Chickamauga Reservoir in Spring City, Tennessee. It is named for a bar at Watts Island that blocked navigation in the Tennessee River channel before it was flooded by Watts Bar Reservoir.

The plant consists of one Westinghouse pressurized-water reactor that can produce enough electricity to supply about 650,000 homes a day.

 

Phone: 800-467-1388
E-mail: tvainfo@tva.com

Operating history

• Groundbreaking took place in 1972.
• Major construction began in 1973.
• Unit 1 began commercial operation on May 27, 1996.
• The longest continuous operating run for Unit 1 is 512 days, 21 hours, and 19 minutes, from April 16, 1999, to September 10, 2000.

Site Leadership

• Michael D. Skaggs, Site Vice President
• Mike Lorek, Plant Manager