Staff file photo / Both cooling towers release steam at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant near Spring City, Tennessee. Since 2003, the nuclear plant has helped produce tritium, a key component in America's nuclear arsenal, for the National Nuclear Security Administration, and the military is planning on boosting tritium production, subject to final regulatory approval.
The Tennessee Valley Authority may soon boost its production of a key component of America's nuclear arsenal at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant near Spring City, Tennessee, despite concerns by some environmentalists the move could threaten East Tennessee water supplies and criticism by anti-nuclear activists that the move further violates...
