The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has renewed the operating licenses for all three units at Tennessee Valley Authority’s Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant in Alabama.
Browns Ferry’s Unit 1 operating license will now expire in December 2053, June 2054 for Unit 2 and July 2056 for Unit 3.
“The subsequent license renewal at Browns Ferry marks a proud and historic moment for TVA and the communities we serve,” TVA’s President & CEO Don Moul said in its Dec. 12 press release. “This is more than a regulatory milestone – it affirms TVA’s continued commitment to nuclear power and the future of American families, jobs and energy independence.”
Browns Ferry, located in Athens, Alabama, is TVA’s largest generating asset and the third-largest nuclear plant in the United States, according to the release. The plant, which consists of three boiling water reactors, produces 3,954 megawatts of electricity.
TVA began the process of applying for a subsequent license renewal for the Alabama plant in 2022.
Browns Ferry makes the fifth nuclear power station where NRC has extended reactor licenses this year. NRC ‘s other 2025 renewed licenses are for Perry Unit 1 in Ohio, Point Beach Units 1 and 2 in Wisconsin, Oconee Units 1, 2 and 3, and Virgil C. Summer Unit 1, all in South Carolina, according to NRC’s Dec. 12 press release.