Watts Bar Unit 2 Goes Commercial

After operating at 100 percent for the past three weeks, the Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar Unit 2 is producing carbon-free electricity for more than 650,000 homes and providing economic and environmental benefits for the region around the TVA reactor. 

The Watts Bar Unit 2 is the 100th rector in the United States and it will contribute to the almost 20 percent of clean energy that nuclear has produced of our nation's total electricity. It will help TVA achieve its goal of reducing CO₂ emissions by 60 percent over 2005 levels over the next four years, and the two-units combined  provide almost 1,000 permanent jobs.