Dr. Peter John Flippin

Historical marker location:

8727 East Kerrville Rosemark Road, Millington, Tennessee

( Marker is on East Kerrville Rosemark Road east of Rosemark Road, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 2017

1873-1950.

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.