By Alabama Public Radio
Scottsboro, AL – The Tennessee Valley Authority and the U-S Department of Energy are expecting to find out soon if the unfinished Bellefonte Nuclear Plant near Scottsboro will be completed and go on line. Construction on both nuclear reactors stopped in the 1980's. Unit one was 96 percent complete. Unit two was 55 percent complete. U-S Senator Jeff Sessions spoke at a recent town hall meeting in Scottsboro, saying the plant would provide clean electricity for years. He also says using the Bellefonte nuclear plant would help Jackson County's economy. He says as many as one-thousand jobs could be created during the project's construction phase.