Overview

• The single 540-foot tower at the canceled Hartsville Nuclear Plant was brought down around 6:30 a.m. Thursday in Trousdale County.
• The Trousdale County Sheriff's Office organized a designated viewing area and patrolled multiple restricted zones near the site for public safety.
• A temporary unmanned aircraft restriction covered a one‑mile radius up to 3,000 feet from 5 to 8 a.m. during the operation.
• Construction on the plant began in 1977 and was decommissioned in 1984, and the property later became home to the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center in 2016.
• TVA said removing the tower makes way for future possibilities at the property as the utility explores small modular reactors and expands capacity, with nuclear now about 40% of its generation.