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The Tennessee Valley Authority delivered good performance in 2010, keeping reliability high and prices competitive, despite stress that extreme weather placed on TVA's electric power infrastructure, President and CEO Tom Kilgore told the utility's board of directors Thursday.

The Department of Energy is looking for ways to dispose of plutonium from nuclear weapons. - By Tom Lamar - A public hearing on the Tennessee Valley Authority possibly using reprocessed weapons plutonium to power some reactors in north Alabama and Tennessee attracted about 70 people on Tuesday, many with questions about safety. A TVA official at the Tuesday hearing in north Alabama said no decision has been made...

Under the agreement, GE will provide service support for the next 24 planned outages at TVA’s Brown’s Ferry nuclear plant and the Paradise, Bull Run and Widow’s Creek fossil (steam) plants - By Stephen Heiser - GE has signed a service alliance with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the nation’s largest public power provider, covering four TVA power plants and valued at $116 million over...

MOX Fuel From Weapons-Grade Plutonium - By Duncan Williams - On February 25, 2010, the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced that it entered into an inter-agency agreement with the government owned Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in order to evaluate the use of a nuclear fuel made from surplus weapons plutonium. This announcement comes on the heels of President Obama’s recently submitted...

Converting the plutonium to spent fuel is an essential step in U.S. efforts to dispose of 34 metric tons of surplus weapon-grade plutonium withdrawn from the nuclear weapons program - By Linton Levy - The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has signed an interagency agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to evaluate the use of mixed oxide (MOX) fuel made from U.S. surplus weapons plutonium...

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Did you check out the power status of the plants on the Nuclear Street home page today? Will then you missed the 1% power noted for the Browns Ferry Unit 1. Yes, it is back online! Here is the press release from TVA: The Tennessee Valley Authority restarted Unit 1 at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant in North Alabama today, completing one of the most extensive recovery efforts in the nuclear industry for an operating...