Watts Bar Steam Plant
Watts Bar Steam Plant was a 267-megawatt, coal power plant operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority located in Rhea County, Tennessee near the present site of Watts Bar Nuclear Plant and Watts Bar Dam.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station and Watts Bar Dam.
Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station
Power station
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The Watts Bar Nuclear Plant is a Tennessee Valley Authority nuclear reactor pair used for electric power generation. It is located on a 1,770-acre site in Rhea County, Tennessee, near Spring City, between Chattanooga and Knoxville. Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station is situated 1½ km southwest of Watts Bar Steam Plant.
Watts Bar Dam
Dam
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Watts Bar Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Meigs and Rhea counties in Tennessee, United States. The dam is one of nine dams on the main Tennessee River channel operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1940s to provide flood control and electricity and to help create a continuous navigable channel along the entire length of the river. Watts Bar Dam is situated 1¼ km north of Watts Bar Steam Plant.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Euchee.
Euchee
Hamlet
Euchee is an unincorporated community in Meigs County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Euchee is situated 9 km northeast of Watts Bar Steam Plant.
Watts Bar Steam Plant
- Type: Building
- Description: coal-fired power plant in Rhea County, Tennessee
- Category: coal-fired power station
- Location: Rhea, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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“Watts Bar Steam Plant” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محطة واتس بار البخارية”
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