Environmental radioactivity levels: Watts Bar Nuclear Plant. Annual report, 1980
The Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN), being constructed by the Tennessee Valley Authority, is located on a site owned by TVA containing 1770 acres of land in Rhea County, Tennessee, bounded on the east by Chickamauga Reservoir. See figure 1. The site is approximately 50 miles (80 kilometers) northeast of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and 8 miles (13 milometers) southeast of Spring City, Tennessee. The plant will consist of two pressurized water reactors; each unit is rated at 3411 MW(t) and 1160 MW(e). Fuel load in Unit 1 is scheduled for June 1982. A preoperational environmental radiological monitoring program was implemented in December 1976. This program has the objective of establishing a baseline of data on the distribution of natural and manmade radioactivity in the environment near the plant site. This report presents the results obtained from that program during 1980.
- Research Organization:
- Tennessee Valley Authority, Chattanooga (USA). Div. of Occupational Health and Safety
- OSTI ID:
- 6204607
- Report Number(s):
- TVA/OMS/OHS-81/5; RH-81-7-WBI; ON: DE81903569
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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