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TVA Chairman Marvin Runyon outlines the agency's major problems including $17.9 billion in debt, damaged public image from closed nuclear plants, and high nuclear contractor costs. The article discusses Runyon's restructuring efforts and potential cuts to…
“It makes no sense to make these sites on the Tennessee River where we get our drinking water the nuclear dumps of our region”
“In a very literal sense, the rubble has not cooled in Japan, and the NRC has granted a license for a new, unproven reactor design here in the United States”
“The experience in this case is that it is neither cheap or reliable. It's time for the Legislature to reconsider what it did in 2006.”
Nine environmental groups, including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and Friends of the Earth, announced plans to seek a court delay of Southern Company's $14 billion construction of two nuclear reactors at the Vogtle plant…
The Tennessee Valley Authority announced delays and cost overruns for the Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant's second reactor completion. The project, originally planned for five years at $2.5 billion, will now take at least a year…
Environmental groups including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy challenged the NRC's approval of a combined license for Southern Co. to build two new reactors at Georgia's Plant Vogtle. The groups sought a new environmental impact…
“You would think that the conservative party would be conservatively approaching use of both ratepayer money and taxpayer money and that they would want transparency and openness. Yet we've heard virtually nothing from anyone in the Republican Party.”
A Savannah Morning News article covering G-8 Summit-related cultural events in Savannah highlights a "No-Nukes Night" on June 8 featuring lectures and films on nuclear proliferation and plutonium production. Southern Alliance for Clean Energy is listed…
“TVA is not looking forward, it is still locked in the failed vision of the past”
“As evidenced by today's NRC decision, regulators unfortunately continue to ignore the real ramifications that this risky, expensive nuclear project could have on utility customers and local communities. There are serious safety and economic concerns that will eventually come to a front. Before billions more dollars are spent, post-Fukushima issues should be dealt with in order to best protect surrounding communities and ratepayers' pocketbooks.”
“TVA's decision in August, 2007, to restart construction on Watts Bar's second reactor was flawed from the very beginning”
“We need a hall monitor to say this doesn't make sense, whether it's the speaker of the (Florida) House, the president of the Senate or the governor.”
“We are part of this important effort to ensure that local communities and the public finally have the ability to raise important concerns about the risks associated with radioactive waste and subsequent storage at nuclear plants across the Southeast. The Court agreed with us that it's long overdue for these serious impacts to finally be evaluated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and shared with the public. Now we're just making sure that'll happen--that communities will have a voice.”
“yet another chapter in TVA's long history of dramatic delays and nuclear cost overruns. Someone needs to be held accountable for this $2 billion mistake. This is simply unacceptable.”
