Substation · United States
Watts Bar Power Station
Operator TVA
In service (mapped)Data checked 12 November 2026
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Watts Bar Power Station is a substation 23 km north-east of Dayton, United States. Its status in the OpenStreetMap is in service (mapped). No other energy site in the register's datasets is within 10 km. The register holds one incident at this site, the latest in 2021.
Incidents on the register at this site
On a Tuesday night, reported as about 9:20pm and most likely 30 November 2021, a failed transformer caught fire at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority. The source identifies the fire as being in the Unit 2 main bank...
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The site
- Technology
- Substation (500 kV substation)
- Status
- In service (mapped) (Mapped as a substation in OpenStreetMap with no disused, construction or proposed tag)
- Operator
- TVA
- Location
- , United States
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Questions
- Has Watts Bar Power Station had a fire or other incident?
- Yes. The register holds one incident that names it: Transformer fire at Watts Bar nuclear plant extinguished by on-site crew (EIR-2785, 2021).
- What is the status of Watts Bar Power Station?
- In service (mapped), in the OpenStreetMap.
- Where is Watts Bar Power Station?
- 23 km north-east of Dayton, United States.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL), openstreetmap.org/copyright. The dataset. The register adds only the incidents and the counts. Nearest town: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).