To be built and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) , it was to have four General Electric boiling water reactors.

These plants include Browns Ferry, Sequoyah, Watts Bar, Bellefonte, Phipps Bend, Yellow Creek, and Hartsville.

TVA released their draft environmental impact statement[1] for the construction of the four-unit General Electric BWR/6 in late 1974.

[1] The turbo generators were to be manufactured by Brown, Boveri & Cie (Now ABB Ltd), a Swiss electrical engineering company.

The reactor pressure vessel (RPV) was installed, and parts of the Mark III containment structure were in place.

The cooling tower's steel frame base was completed, but the main structure had not begun construction.

In 1979 the Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident had sprouted a new anti-nuclear wave, which had affected public opinion on the Hartsville plant.

[8][10] In July 1984, TVA staff recommended the shutdown of Plant A to their Board of directors, citing possible cost increases, and the power demand situation.

[10][11] In August 2002, a uranium enrichment facility was proposed to be constructed on the site of the power plant to be operated by Louisiana Energy Services.