Why TVA Is Completing Watts Bar 2

August 15, 2014, 1:57PMANS Nuclear Cafe

Got a minute (and 22 seconds)? Catch a quick update on the first new commercial nuclear energy in the United States of the 21st century-in Tennessee.

Mike Skaggs, the Tennessee Valley Authority's senior vice president for Watts Bar Operations  and Construction, explains how and why Watts Bar Unit 2 will be completed. Watts Bar-2 is scheduled to come online at the end of 2015, and will make nuclear energy a full 40 percent of TVA's electrical generation. (Much more on Watts Bar-2 here, and more Watts Bar videos at ANS Nuclear Cafe here.)

Thanks to Nuclear Energy Institute Network for sharing this video.

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