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Encyclopedia > Bellefonte Nuclear Generating Station

The Tennessee Valley Authority's unfinished Bellefonte nuclear power plant is located in Hollywood, Alabama, abandoned in 1988 after a $6 billion investment. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the TVA Act The Tennessee Valley Authority is a New Deal agency created to generate electric power and control floods in a seven-U.S.-state region around the Tennessee River Valley. ... A nuclear power plant in Cattenom, France. ... Hollywood is a town located in Jackson County, Alabama. ...


The two pressurized water reactors on the site were made by Babcock and Wilcox, the same manufacturer as at Three Mile Island. A pressurized water reactor (PWR) is a type of nuclear power reactor that uses ordinary light water for both coolant and for neutron moderator. ... Babcock and Wilcox is a power generation and equipment design company. ... Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station consists of two nuclear reactors each with its own containment building and cooling towers. ...


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