ABOUT THE PLANT
• Construction began in 1966, and the plant began operating in 1974.
• In March 2002, Brown’s Ferry Unit 3 finished the longest unbroken operational run of a TVA nuclear unit
ABOUT THE PLANT
• Construction began in 1966, and the plant began operating in 1974.
• In March 2002, Brown’s Ferry Unit 3 finished the longest unbroken operational run of a TVA nuclear unit and the second longest among all U.S. plants. It ran nonstop for 669 days before going offline for a scheduled refueling outage, generating a world-record 18 million megawatt hours during that time.
Source: Tennessee Valley Authority
One of the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant’s shutdown reactors lost cooling for about 40 minutes Thursday evening, triggering another mandatory no