Nuclear Issues in Tennessee presentation by Kathleen Ferris at the KNOW NUKES YALL SUMMIT on June 30, 2012.

1. Six TVA
Nuclear Reactors
in or near
Tennessee

2. Browns Ferry Plant (3 reactors) near Athens, AL

3. Browns Ferry’s Record
 Built between 1966 and 1977, TVA’s oldest
 Same GE design as Fukushima
 Almost 1 million pop. within 50 mi. radius
 Only reactor in nation to have NRC RED FLAG
inspection rating (worst)
 Contains 3.1 million lbs. radioactive “spent” fuel
in cooling pools
 Since 1980 BF has reported more than 1700
“events” to the NRC, has had repeated
shutdowns
Licenses of 3 reactors were renewed in May of
2006 to operate until 2033, 2034, and 2036

4. Tornados April 27, 2011

6. Sequoyah
Two reactors
Located not far from downtown Chattanooga
Built in 1980 & 1981, license renewed to 2041
Over 1 million people within 50 mi. radius

7. Watts Bar
Located between Chattanooga and Knoxville
One reactor operating, 2nd under construction since
2007, supposed to open in 2012, again delayed 2 yrs or
more , $2 BILLION OVER ESTIMATED COST

8. Bellefonte
The ZOMBIE
REACTOR
Located near
Scottsboro, AL
Begun In 1974.
stopped in 1988,
cannibalized
for parts by TVA in
2006 & 07.
RESURRECTED in 2008 when TVA asked NRC to reinstate
deferred license. Approved by TVA Board for
construction after Watts Bar 2 begins operating.
Estimated cost, $4 to $5 BILLION.

10. TVA has 6 nuclear reactors on the Tennessee River
+
One more in construction at Watts Bar +
One more planned at Bellefonte= 8 reactors
Each reactor uses about 24 million gallons of water
per day.
Current water usage = c. 144 million gal/day
Projected water usage = c. 192 million gal./day

12. Water consumption by type of electricity generation:
This article was corrected on 12 September 2011

16. A typical nuclear power plant in a
year generates 20 metric tons of
used nuclear fuel. The nuclear
industry generates a total of about
2,000 - 2,300 metric tons of used
fuel per year.
That accounts only for high level
waste.

18. The USA has 104 nuclear reactors
churning out tons of radioactive waste
every year. Spent fuel rods are stored in
pools to cool and then placed in casks on
site. No place for permanent disposal.
“Low-level” waste is sent to TN, processed
and then for buried or incinerated. Now
radioactive metals are being recycled into
objects for commercial use. Dog dishes
and kleenex boxes today. Cooking pots
tomorrow?

19. There is no such thing as real
nuclear clean-up, just an effort
to incinerate, to sort, to bury,
and to move radioactive waste
from one location to another.
Some lethal radionuclides will
be with the earth for up to a
million years.