La centrale nucléaire de Browns Ferry est située sur la rivière Tennessee près de Decatur et d’Athens, en Alabama. La tranche nº 1 est arrêtée durant une année. Un travailleur qui contrôlait l’étanchéité d’un système d’air à l’aide d’une bougie déclencha le feu accidentellement.
The Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant is located on the Tennessee River near Decatur and Athens, Alabama, on the north side (right bank) of Wheeler Lake. The site has three General Electric boiling water reactor (BWR) nuclear generating units and is owned entirely by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). With a generating capacity of nearly 3.8 gigawatts, it is the second most powerful nuclear plant in the United States, behind the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Arizona, and the most powerful generating station operated by TVA.Image : Browns Ferry Unit 1 drywell and wetwell under construction, within a Mark I containment – TVA’s 75th Anniversary webpage, picture from Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant’s Unit 1 under construction which began in 1966.