Spring City News

TVA President and CEO Tom Kilgore issued a statement to TVA employees today, explaining why contract workers at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant were placed on an unpaid work stoppage this week after safety incidents.

The Tennessee Valley Authority has ordered an unpaid work stoppage for 1,000 contract workers at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in Spring City, Tenn., after finding that cables had been mistakenly removed from the plants operating nuclear reactor in December The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports that a valve in a nuclear reactor currently under ... (more)

About 250 people filled a Bledsoe County courtroom to protest the proposed closing of a state juvenile detention center that provides 170 jobs.

A former nuclear regulator, an economic analyst and a congressional think-tank adviser say 2011 marked the fall of the so-called U.S. nuclear renaissance, despite regulators' approval last week of a new reactor design.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has extended the public comment period on its preliminary finding that there are no environmental impacts to stop an operating license for the under-construction Watts Bar 2 reactor near Spring City, Tenn.