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The Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant is located on 525 acres (2.1 km²) abutting Chickamauga Lake , a lake created from the Tennessee River near Chattanooga, Tennessee . The facility is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority . The plant has two Westinghouse Pressurized Water Reactor s. The first reactor began operation in September 1980 , followed by the second a year later. Within months of starting operations, some 420,000 liters of radioactive coolant leaked due to operator error and several workers were exposed to radiation, but the spill was kept inside the Containment Building . Sequoyah is located 7 miles east of Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee , and 20 miles north of Chattanooga, at the intersection of Sequoyah Access Road and Igou Ferry Road, about 1 mile east of Hixson Pike. Most of the plant is visible from Igou Ferry Road; there are few, if any fences obstructing a view of the facility. Sequoyah's two units have a winter net dependable capacity of 2,333 megawattsSecurities & Exchange Commission filing. Available at http://www.sec.gov/, making Sequoyah the biggest of TVA's 3 nuclear plants, in terms of ability to generate electric power. Sequoyah is the second-most powerful plant in the entire TVA system, second only to the Cumberland coal-fired plant northwest of Nashville. The operating license of Sequoyah's Unit 1 expires in 2020. Unit 2's operating license expires in 2021.Securities & Exchange Commission filing. Available at http://www.sec.gov/ TVA constructed Dry Cask Storage facilities at Sequoyah and purchased special storage containers for the purpose of storing spent nuclear fuel. The storage facilities have been approved by the NRC.Securities & Exchange Commission filing. Available at http://www.sec.gov/ TVA's Sequoyah operating license was modified in Sept. 2002 to allow TVA to irradiate Tritium -producing burnable absorber rods at Sequoyah for the U.S. Department Of Energy . The process of irradiating tritium-producing rods produces tritium, which is used in Nuclear Weapons . TVA began irradiating tritium-producing rods at its Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station in 2003. As of February 2007, TVA had no plans to produce tritium at Sequoyah.Securities & Exchange Commission filing. Available at http://www.sec.gov/ The U.S. Department of Energy reimburses TVA for the cost of providing the irradiation services, and also pays TVA a fee for each tritium-producing rod that is irradiated.Securities & Exchange Commission filing. Available at http://www.sec.gov/ The Department of Energy collects the irradiated rods from TVA at the nuclear generating station, and ships them to its own tritium-extracting facilities.Securities & Exchange Commission filing. Available at http://www.sec.gov/ NOTES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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