Hartsville Nuclear Plant
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The Hartsville Nuclear Plant is a canceled nuclear power plant
project located near Hartsville, Tennessee
. To be built and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority
, it was to have four General Electric
boiling water reactor
s.
Land along the Cumberland River
was acquired by TVA in the late 1960s for construction of the plant which was to accommodate the electricity demand for the 1980s. Construction began in 1975. The Plant B reactors were canceled on March 22, 1983 and the Plant A reactors were canceled on August 29, 1984.
There are currently plans to turn 550 acres (222.6 ha) of the 1940 acres (785.1 ha) property into an industrial park
similar to what became of the Satsop Nuclear Plant
in Washington.
Nuclear power plant
A nuclear power plant is a thermal power station in which the heat source is one or more nuclear reactors. As in a conventional thermal power station the heat is used to generate steam which drives a steam turbine connected to a generator which produces electricity.Nuclear power plants are usually...
project located near Hartsville, Tennessee
Hartsville, Tennessee
Hartsville is a town in Trousdale County, Tennessee, United States. It is the county seat of Trousdale County, with which it shares a consolidated city-county government...
. To be built and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennessee Valley Authority
The Tennessee Valley Authority is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected...
, it was to have four General Electric
General Electric
General Electric Company , or GE, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in Schenectady, New York and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States...
boiling water reactor
Boiling water reactor
The boiling water reactor is a type of light water nuclear reactor used for the generation of electrical power. It is the second most common type of electricity-generating nuclear reactor after the pressurized water reactor , also a type of light water nuclear reactor...
s.
Land along the Cumberland River
Cumberland River
The Cumberland River is a waterway in the Southern United States. It is long. It starts in Harlan County in far southeastern Kentucky between Pine and Cumberland mountains, flows through southern Kentucky, crosses into northern Tennessee, and then curves back up into western Kentucky before...
was acquired by TVA in the late 1960s for construction of the plant which was to accommodate the electricity demand for the 1980s. Construction began in 1975. The Plant B reactors were canceled on March 22, 1983 and the Plant A reactors were canceled on August 29, 1984.
There are currently plans to turn 550 acres (222.6 ha) of the 1940 acres (785.1 ha) property into an industrial park
Industrial park
An industrial park is an area zoned and planned for the purpose of industrial development...
similar to what became of the Satsop Nuclear Plant
WNP-3 and WNP-5
WNP-3 and WNP-5 were, along with the WNP-2 and WNP-1 and WNP-4, two of the five nuclear power plants on which construction was started by the Washington Public Power Supply System in 1977...
in Washington.