Solar Valley Coalition
| Nuclear - Watts Bar |
WB 1
WB2
- Construction budget of $2.94 billion
- Planned to be online by 2012
- Board approves construction 8/07
Hydrogen leak at Watts Bar nuclear plant. Knoxville News Sentinel. August 1, 2008
NRC Extends Permit to Build Watts Bar Unit 2. Chattanooga Times Free Press. July 11, 2008.
TVA is in hot-water dispute. Permit to discharge into Tennessee River expired two years ago. By ANNE PAINE •
Nashville Tennessean • June 10, 2008
Critics: TVA bid process was flawed. Firm that led study won contract. By ANNE PAINE • Nashville Tennessean. •
April 29, 2008
Bechtel's powerpoint on the completion of WB2.
Tom Kilgore's Letter to Sierra Club on WB2
Bechtel wins TVA contract: Pact worth $1B to finish 5-year Unit 2 reactor at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant By Andrew Eder, Knoxville News
Sentinel, October 16, 2007.
TVA Board Approves Completion of Second Unit at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant. TVA PR 8/07 (distributed to press prior to TVA board
meeting at which plant approved.)
WB2 EIS (6/07)
NRC Extends Permit to Build Watts Bar Unit 2. Chattanooga Times Free Press. July 11, 2008.
TVA is in hot-water dispute. Permit to discharge into Tennessee River expired two years ago. By ANNE PAINE •
Nashville Tennessean • June 10, 2008
Critics: TVA bid process was flawed. Firm that led study won contract. By ANNE PAINE • Nashville Tennessean. •
April 29, 2008
Bechtel's powerpoint on the completion of WB2.
Tom Kilgore's Letter to Sierra Club on WB2
Bechtel wins TVA contract: Pact worth $1B to finish 5-year Unit 2 reactor at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant By Andrew Eder, Knoxville News
Sentinel, October 16, 2007.
TVA Board Approves Completion of Second Unit at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant. TVA PR 8/07 (distributed to press prior to TVA board
meeting at which plant approved.)
WB2 EIS (6/07)
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Rhea, Meigs, McMinn counties plan for nuclear plant emergency Kimberly McMillian Chattanooga Times
Free Press March 30, 2011
Worker denies falsifying TVA reactor data. Anne Paine. Nashville Tennessean March 25, 2011
Chattanooga Man Indicted for False Statements on N-Power Plant Electrical Safety Systems. TVA OIG press
release. March 24, 2011
Nuclear Regulatory Commission named Russ Lewis new resident inspector for Watts Bar Unit 2
Knoxville News Sentinel November 2, 2010
GAO Warns Of Threat To Tritium Stockpile. Oct. 8, 2010. Global Security Newswire.
TVA Watts Bar 2 Update (December 2009)
TVA report to NRC on tritium problems. NRC document. March 22, 2005.
TVA moves toward 2012 startup of Watts Bar II. Dave Flessner. Chattanooga Times Free Press. 7/20/09.
Groups oppose second nuclear reactor at Watts Bar. Environmentalists petition NRC to intervene against
TVA By Kristen Letsinger. Knoxville News Sentinel. July 16, 2009
Obama Budget Seeks Rise in Tritium Capacity (WB produced) Arms Control Assn. June 2009.
Nuclear group tours TVA plant. NRC 'impressed' with construction work. By Ed Marcum Knoxville News
Sentinel. April 14, 2009
TVA says startup for Unit 2 of nuke plant on track. Ed Marcum. Knoxville News Sentinel. December 12, 2008
TVA plant problems occur as rate hike considered. By ANNE PAINE. Nashville Tennessean. August 10,
2008.
2 TVA plants taken offline. Two others running at 50% capacity; effect financially. unknown. By Larisa Brass
Knoxville News Sentinel. August 9, 2008
New Reactor in Tennessee Safety Concerns Cloud US Nuclear Renaissance By Ullrich Fichtner Spiegel
July 17, 2011
Critics question TVA nuke safety results Anne Paine Nashville Tennessean July 19, 2011
CBS Investigative Report: Whistle Blowers being Threatened and Harassed. Part 2. July 20, 2011. ( With
Ann Harris.)
CBS Investigative Report on the Safety of the New Reactor at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in Spring
City Submitted by WDEF on July 19, 2011. Part 1 Interview with Ann Harris.
TVA accounting faulted Audit raises questions about whether ratepayers helped fund nuclear weapons Anne
Paine Nashville Tennessean Jul. 1, 2011
Westinghouse to Deliver Nuclear Fuel to Watts Bar 2 Nuclear Energy Facility PR Newswire 6/21/11
Man pleads guilty to falsifying safety records at Watts Bar Chattanooga Times Free Press June 8, 2011
Change-of-plea hearing set for TVA nuclear site worker accused of lying about inspections BILL
POOVEY Associated Press May 31, 2011
Sequoyah, Watts Bar get NRC’s top safety rating Dave Flessner Chattanooga Times Free Press. April 21,
2011
TVA says evacuation plan in place for Knoxville, Knox in case of nuclear accident
Utility calls protest baseless By Ed Marcum April 2, 2011
Former electrician at Tenn. nuclear reactor project gets probation for falsifying work records AP
Washington Post Nov. 3, 2011.
TVA contractor lays off 800 at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Pam Sohn Chattanooga Times Free Press Oct. 20
2011
2nd man charged for fake records at TVA's Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Knoxville News Sentinel September
28, 2011
Officials lay out scenario for nuclear disaster at Watts Bar by Joan Garret Chattanooga Times Free Press.
September 22, 2011
NRC says sale of TVA reactor won't hamper licensing By Ed Marcum Knoxville News Sentinel August 24,
2011
TVA won't meet reactor deadline at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Anne Paine Nashville Tennessean Aug. 8,
2011
Delays and cost overruns hit Watts Bar work Dave Flessner Chattanooga Times
Free Press Feb. 4, 2012
TVA CEO calls for safety focus after Watts Bar incidents By Ed Marcum Knoxville
News Sentinel January 21, 2012
Public comment time on Watts Bar reactor extended Pam Sohn Chattanooga
Times Free Press Dec. 28, 2011
TVA nuclear protesters say they feel ignored Pam Sohn Chattanooga Times Free
Press. Dec. 9, 2011
NRC soliciting comments on Watts Bar environmental impact By Associated
Press November 11th, 2011
TVA, NRC mark progress at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Pam Sohn Chattanooga
Times Free Press. Nov. 9, 2011