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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”
An op-ed criticizing the Bush administration's energy policy as favoring fossil fuel extraction and power plant construction over conservation and efficiency. The piece cites TVA's energy efficiency programs and references SACE's involvement in clean air initiatives…
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…
“There's an extraordinary amount of frustration because this is a festering problem”
“TVA is not looking forward, it is still locked in the failed vision of the past”
TVA completed the $790 million John Sevier Combined Cycle Gas Plant near Rogersville, Tennessee, a month ahead of schedule and $30 million under budget. The 880-megawatt natural gas plant began commercial operation and will replace part…
Environmental and public health groups, including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, filed a lawsuit against the EPA to force completion of rulemaking for coal ash disposal safeguards. The lawsuit highlights 30 years without EPA updates…
“TVA's decision in August, 2007, to restart construction on Watts Bar's second reactor was flawed from the very beginning”
SACE press release promoting Green Power Switch, a renewable energy program launched by TVA and participating utilities on Earth Day 2000. The release invites Southeast residents to purchase clean energy blocks at $4 per 150 kWh…
“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.”
Mississippi State University's assistant research professor Jeremiah Dumas received TVA's 'Campus Sustainability Pioneer' honor as part of the Green Power Switch Leadership Awards program, jointly administered by TVA and the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. The…
The TVA board approved continued construction of Unit 2 at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant with an additional $1.5–2 billion in funding, bringing the total project cost to $4–4.5 billion. TVA President Tom Kilgore stated the reactor…
“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.”
“We're generally supportive of the concept”
