TVA sour on nuclear lease deal
“It's a shell game that still requires TVA to pay for cost overruns and delays”
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Ozone limits choke growth
A federal appeals court upheld the EPA's stricter eight-hour ozone standard, intensifying pressure on the Birmingham area which already fails to meet the current one-hour standard. The new regulations, expected to take effect in late 2004,…
Utility Board Votes to Restart a Nuclear Reactor in Alabama That Has Been Idle Since 1985
“They're taking an old nuclear reactor that has not operated for 17 years, and they're going to run it longer and harder than it was designed for. It originally had a design life of 40 years, which they want to extend for 20 years, and they want to force it to produce 1,300 megawatts when it was designed for 1,000. It's a prescription for a serious problem.”
TVA board votes to restart reactor
“no other utility could get away with doing this – making a $1.8 billion decision based on staff recommendation”
Ex-TVA Director Hayes now lobbying for Southern
“What does Southern Co. want? They want TVA's big industrial customers.”
Eastman touts clean use of coal
“TVA's position shortsighted because the agency will need to build new coal plants eventually and coal gasification is an environmentally superior process. He said TVA should be "getting on that learning curve" now.”
Green Power program growth 'pleasant surprise': TVA looking to expand its renewable energy sources
“Nobody really knew how this part of the country could perform in this part of the country. The industry really is getting some legs under it and taking off.”
Haney eyes nuclear reactor lease
“This sounds like some sort of elaborate scheme to give people the impression that (TVAs) not spending any money but getting back into the nuclear construction business. It should be of great concern to everybody in the Tennessee Valley.”
TVA may start up 3 reactors
“What concerns me so much about the Bush administration pushing TVA to the forefront to reignite the nuclear power program in this country is that it's the same kind of thinking that got us in the situation we're in today”
TVA OKs fuel from weapons production
“The downside is clearly the continued blurring of lines between commercial and the military applications of nuclear power. I think it sets a bad precedent. We lose some of our credibility as an international broker (to dissuade similar actions abroad).”
Four electricians burned at Browns Ferry
“No other utility in the country I think could get away with what TVA is about to get away with”
TVA suing feds over cost to store nuke waste
“The worst thing is to move it around, get it out there and then realize you have to move it again”
TVA hears more about proposal to restart reactor
“I haven't seen all the details of the proposal, but I am very skeptical of it based on what I've heard”
A billion-dollar second chance
“the proposal lacks an independent review”
TVA to buy electricity from Calpine Corp.
“TVA is spending more than three times as much for each unit of power at Browns Ferry”