Details have emerged of a plan to complete the Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant in Alabama, and its two Babcock & Wilcox pressurized water reactors. This is approximately 30 years after the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) called a halt to its construction.
TVA began building the plant in 1974. Construction was halted in 1988 amid a downturn in the U.S. nuclear industry, when it was decided that the plant was not needed due to declining power demand.
The 1,300-acre Bellefonte site has two partly-built reactors, cooling towers, water pumping stations, switch yards, warehouses, office buildings, parking lots, a helicopter landing pad and railroad spurs still in place from construction.