Construction on Watts Bar Unit 1, an 1167 MW PWR, was completed in 1996. Construction started in 1973.
Unit 2, an 1180 MW PWR, is slated for completion sometime in 2012.
The first commercial nuclear power plant in the US was built in 1957 in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. The first commercial nuclear power plant in the world was built in 1956 in Calder Hill, UK.
Nothing happens in the nuclear plant in Bataan. This plant was built but never operated.
The first nuclear power plant ever built is in 1954
According to the US Dept of Energy, the last reactor built was the "River Bend" plant in Louisiana. Its construction began in March of 1977. The last plant to begin commercial operation is the "Watts Bar" plant in Tennessee, which came online in 1996. Note: The list I obtained only listed operational reactors.
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Operating nuclear power plants in Tennesee are Sequoya 1 and 2, and Watts Bar 1. All are Westinghouse designed PWR's of 1125 MWe output. Sequoya is 9.5 miles NE of Chattanooga and Watts bar is 10 miles S of Spring City. See link below
Kudankulam Nuclear Powerplant is designed to produce 2000 Mega Watts. But can extract up to 4000 Mega Watts at maximum capacity.
2012
they have never built one
So they can produce electricity for the state
No new nuclear plants have been built in the US in the past 20 years. The Watts Bar plant was licenced in 1996, but had been built much earlier. The last plant actually built was the River Bend plant in Louisiana, which was licenced in 1986.
Leo Szilard invented the nuclear reactor in 1933, but did not build it.Enrico Fermi built first nuclear reactor, CP-1 in 1942.Walter Zinn built the first nuclear power plant, EBR-1 in 1951.