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Sequoyah Nuclear Plant

Located on 525 acres beside Chickamauga Reservoir in Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee, TVA’s Sequoyah Nuclear Plant consists of two Westinghouse pressurized-water reactors that can produce enough electricity to supply about 1.3 million homes a day.

Sequoyah, TVA’s second nuclear power plant, is named in honor of a Cherokee Indian who lived in the area and invented an alphabet that was the tribe’s first written form of communication.

Operating history

  • Groundbreaking took place in 1969.
  • Major construction began in 1970.
  • Unit 1 began commercial operation on July 1, 1981.
  • Unit 2 began commercial operation on June 1, 1982.
  • The longest continuous operating run for Unit 1 is 506 days, 17 hours, and 33 minutes, from 6:27 am May 15 2006, to midnight October 4 2007.
  • The longest continuous operating run for Unit 2 is 512 days and 16 hours, from November 18, 2000, to April 14, 2002.

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