Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station

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.

Photo: TVA Web Team, CC BY 2.0.

Type: Power station
Description: Nuclear power plant in Rhea County, Tennessee
Also known as: “Watts Bar Nuclear Plant” and “Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Watts Bar Dam.

Watts Bar Dam

Dam

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

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 1½ miles north of Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Decatur.

Decatur

Town

Photo: BrineStans, CC BY 3.0.

Decatur is a town in Meigs County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 1,563 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Meigs County. Decatur is situated 6 miles south of Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station.

Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station

Categories: nuclear power plant and industry
Location: Rhea, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

35.60113° or 35° 36′ 4″ north

Longitude

-84.79207° or 84° 47′ 31″ west

Elevation

735 feet (224 metres)

Inception

May 1996

Operator

Tennessee Valley Authority

Open location code

867QJ625+F5

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1213799426

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=industrial

GeoNames ID

6332749

Wikidata ID

Q1739496

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station” goes by many names.

Arabic: “محطة واتس بار النووية”
Bengali: “ওয়াটস বার পারমাণবিক বিদ্যুৎ কেন্দ্র”
Chinese: “瓦茨巴核电站”
Chinese: “瓦茨巴核電站”
Czech: “Jaderná elektrárna Watts Bar”
Czech: “JE Watts Bar”
Dutch: “Kerncentrale Watts Bar”
French: “Centrale nucleaire de Watts Bar”
French: “centrale nucléaire de Watts Bar”
French: “Centrale nucléaire de watts bar”
French: “Centrale nucléaire de Watts bar”
French: “Centrale nucléaire de Watts Bar”
French: “Centrale Nucléaire De Watts Bar”
German: “Kernkraftwerk Watts Bar”
German: “Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station”
Italian: “Centrale elettronucleare Watts Bar”
Italian: “centrale nucleare di Watts Bar”
Italian: “Centrale nucleare di Watts Bar”
Japanese: “ワッツバー原子力発電所”
Norwegian Bokmål: “Watts Bar kjernekraftverk”
Norwegian: “Watts Bar kjernekraftverk”
Russian: “АЭС Уоттс-Бар”
Spanish: “Planta de energia nuclear Watts Bar”
Spanish: “Planta de energía nuclear Watts Bar”
Spanish: “Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station”
Swedish: “Watts Bar kärnkraftverk”
Ukrainian: “АЕС Воттс-Бар”

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