
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission allowed the Tennessee Valley Authority to work some people harder during an ongoing service outage at the Watts Bar 2 nuclear reactor, where the restart of tritium production for nuclear weapons has slipped to June from mid-May, the commission said. The outage now “is now scheduled to be completed by early June 2022,” the commission said in a Friday Federal Register notice. The outage that started in March “was originally planned to be completed in mid-May,…