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Tennessee Valley Authority

TVAUtility, fleet ownerState-owned, unlistedHQ Knoxville, TN, United States

Profile

The Tennessee Valley Authority is a US federal corporation operating Browns Ferry (3 units), Sequoyah (2) and Watts Bar (2): 7 operating units with 8,222 MWe net per the reactor dataset. It holds the first US construction permit for a BWRX-300 at its Clinch River site (NRC, 29 Sep 2026; no construction start date or cost announced), signed a non-binding agreement with ENTRA1 Energy for up to 6 GW of NuScale plants (September 2025) and will take Kairos Power's Hermes 2 output under a PPA. Unlisted (federal debt issuer); no market data apply.

Source: data/reactors.csv (WNA/PRIS); data/smr_projects.csv (GE Vernova 29 Sep 2026, WNN 4 Sep 2025, Kairos 17 Apr 2026), 9 Oct 2026 · confidence medium

Fleet

Reactors operated
7
Net capacity
8,222 MWe
As of
9 Oct 2026
Source: data/reactors.csv (WNA Reactor Database / IAEA PRIS as republished by WNA, as of 9 Oct 2026); operating units summed per operator/site

Key projects

Key projects from the company record; a map link appears where the project id is in a map dataset.
ProjectCountryStageNoteMap
Browns FerryUSAOperating3 operating units, 3,610 MWe netopen on the map
SequoyahUSAOperating2 operating units, 2,291 MWe netopen on the map
Watts BarUSAOperating2 operating units, 2,321 MWe netopen on the map
GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300 - Clinch River Nuclear Site, Oak Ridge, Tennessee [owner/licensee]USALicensedRegulator stage as of 9 Oct 2026: NRC construction permit issued 29 Sep 2026 (first US BWRX-300 CP; CPA submitted May 2025, review 14 months); early site permit held since 2019open on the map
NuScale US460 (VOYGR-6, 77 MWe modules) [prospective offtaker]USAConceptRegulator stage as of 9 Oct 2026: NRC standard design approval for uprated 77 MWe module (US460) announced 29 May 2025 and 30 May 2025; no site-specific CP/COL application filedopen on the map
Kairos Hermes 2 (KP-FHR demonstration, ~50 MWe) - Heritage Center (ETTP), Oak Ridge, Tennessee [PPA offtaker]USAUnder constructionRegulator stage as of 9 Oct 2026: Construction permit Nov 2024; groundbreaking 17 Apr 2026open on the map

Deals

Deals naming this company, newest first; each title links to its source. All deals.
DateTypeDealStatusCapacity MWValue
29 Sep 2026Licensing milestoneNRC issues construction permit for TVA's Clinch River BWRX-300 SMRCompleted300n/a
2 Sep 2025SMR orderTVA and ENTRA1 Energy agree to deploy 6 GW of NuScale SMRs across six plantsAnnounced6,000n/a
18 Aug 2025PPATVA signs PPA for up to 50 MW from Kairos Power's Hermes 2 to serve Google data centresSigned50n/a
20 May 2025Licensing milestoneTVA files first US utility construction permit application for a BWRX-300 at Clinch RiverCompleted300n/a
Source: deals.json, as of 9 Oct 2026; values as stated by each source, not converted.

Documents

Documents captured on the record: the latest documents and, where present, the technical report.
DocumentTypeDate
GE Vernova: NRC issues first US construction permit for BWRX-300 at TVA Clinch RiverPress release29 Sep 2026

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