Bellefonte
- Country: USA
- Role: Civil Power
- Status: Never Completed
- Year: 1974
Overview
Two half built pressurized water reactors on the Tennessee River that TVA suspended in 1988 and never finished. Construction licenses were terminated in 2016 and the cooling towers began demolition in 2023, a monument to the collapse of the first US nuclear build out.
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