Burwood

Historical marker location:

5452 Carters Creek Pike, Burwood, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Carters Creek Pike (Tennessee Route 246) and Popes Chapel Road, on the left when traveling south on Carters Creek Pike.)

Marker installed: 1999

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.