Bull Run Fossil Plant
Bull Run Fossil Plant, commonly known as Bull Run Steam Plant, is a retired 889 megawatt (MW), coal-fired electric generating station owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).Bull Run Plant is located on 750 acres (300 ha), in the Claxton community of Anderson County, Tennessee, on the north bank of Bull Run Creek, directly across the Clinch River (Melton Hill Lake) from Oak Ridge, Tennessee.[citation needed] Its supercritical boiler operated at a pressure of 3,650 psi (248 atm) and temperature of 1,000 °F (540 °C).[citation needed] When the generator first went into operation, it was the largest in the world measured in terms of the volume of steam produced.In 2006, the plant ranked the 70th among the large coal-fired plants in the United States on the list of worst SO2 polluters, having emitted 11.92 lb (5.41 kg) of sulfur dioxide per MWh of energy produced (27,987 tons of SO2 in 2006 altogether).