Scottsboro, AL – The Scottsboro City Council has unanimously adopted a resolution urging the Tennessee Valley Authority board of directors to finish Bellefonte Nuclear Plant near here or build a new reactor unit next to it.
The TVA board is expected to decide on April 16 whether to finish one of Bellefonte's two units, build a new unit or take no action.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved TVA's request a year ago that its construction permit for Bellefonte be reinstated.
TVA stopped construction at the twin-reactor plant in 1988 because of a less-than-projected power demand and withdrew its construction permit in 2006.
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