TVA's Bellefonte nuclear power plant slashes jobs

By Dave Flessner · Chattanooga Times Free Press

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TVA announced plans to phase out nearly three-fourths of the 540-person staff at its Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant in North Alabama and cut spending by over $100 million, citing stagnant power demand and the need to focus resources on completing the Watts Bar reactor. Stephen Smith, executive director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, criticized the decision as wasteful, arguing that TVA has surplus capacity and should abandon the 50-year-old reactor design rather than continue investing in Bellefonte.

It's crazy that TVA would try to take what will be a 50-year-old reactor if its built and ask the NRC to license it when TVA simply doesn't need this much more power. There may be some ways to use this site in a non-nuclear way, but at this point TVA needs to put the nail in the coffin of Bellefonte once and for all and put this nuclear plant to death.
Stephen A. Smith

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