The Tennessee Valley Authority beat out South Carolina and Washington on Tuesday in winning a contract to produce the nuclear bomb material tritium

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The U.S. Department of Energy selected TVA's Watts Bar Nuclear Plant near Spring City, Tennessee, as the primary site for tritium production, with Sequoyah as backup, rejecting TVA's more expensive proposal to complete the Bellefonte plant in Alabama. Stephen Smith, president of the Tennessee Valley Energy Reform Coalition, praised the decision as avoiding taxpayer and customer liability. The decision disappointed Alabama officials and environmental groups opposed to tritium production.