Moorman said the NRC, as part of its investigation to license America’s only reactor now under construction, is reviewing 500 whistle-blower allegations still on file with the agency after construction on the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar Nuclear Plant was halted in 1985. TVA in 1996 completed and began operating Unit 1 there, and in 2007 began a five-year, $2.49 billion construction project to complete Unit 2. That reactor now is scheduled to go online in 2012.

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