Fort Adair

Historical marker location:

4816 N Broadway St, Knoxville, Tennessee

( Marker is on North Broadway Street (U.S. 441) 0.1 miles north of Adair Drive, on the right when traveling south.)

Tennessee was the site of the first commercial nuclear power plant in the United States. The Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar Nuclear Plant began operating in 1996 and remains in operation today.