TVA Watts Bar Plant Slapped With Near $1M Fine

摘要

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission slapped a $900,000 fine on the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar nuclear plant in Tennessee, issuing five violations related to a “substantial safety culture issue” at the plant during the fall of 2015 and early 2016.The Tennessee Valley Authority uses Watts Bar Unit 1 to produce tritium for U.S. nuclear weapons. Watts Bar Unit 2, in a refueling outage at deadline Friday, will start producing weapons tritium after it restarts, a spokesperson for the authority said Thursday.