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• TVA gets NRC nod for Bellefonte reactors

  NRC takes first step to reinstate construction licenses, but there are still big decisions ahead for TVA Think of all the metaphors about Phoenix birds rising out of the ashes and then apply them to what’s happening on a 1,600 acre site along the banks of the Tennessee River in northern Alabama. There life may be restored for two nuclear reactors that most had given up for dead. Last week the Nuclear... Posted Jan 27 2010, 08:25 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Bellefonte, TVA

• TVA's destiny revealed at Bellefonte - Part II

  It enters uncharted territory by asking NRC for reinstatement of the licenses for two unfinished nuclear reactors The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to  reinstate the licenses for two partially completed reactors at its Bellefonte site near Scottsboro, GA.  The Knoxville News reports the first-of-a-kind request could result in the restart... Posted Aug 31 2008, 12:00 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: NRC licensing, Bellefonte, TVA, New Nuclear Plants

• TVA's destiny revealed at Bellefonte

  The utility has 15 GWE of coal-fired power plants The Tennessee Valley Authority ( TVA ) should early next year detect on its political radar the rising star of carbon taxes and cap-and-trade legislation in the U.S. Congress.  According to the Congressional Budget Office ( CBO ), a carbon tax price of $45/ton for CO2 should pave the way for fuel switching from fossil to nuclear.  Utilities... Posted Aug 03 2008, 05:59 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Bellefonte, TVA

• TVA files for two new reactors at Bellefonte

  And now for a really big show Anyone watching the nuclear energy industry this month must think it is on something of a roll. The Tennessee Valley Authority filed an application for a license to build and operate two new nuclear power reactors. The site is in Bellefonte, Alabama where it mothballed two reactor projects nearly two decades ago after investing billions of dollars. The TVA application... Posted Oct 30 2007, 10:09 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: NRC licensing, Bellefonte, TVA, Dale Klein