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Tennessee Nuclear Site Worker Charged With Lying About Inspections

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- A sub-contractor employee has been charged with lying about inspections at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, federal prosecutors said Thursday. The site is the only one in the U.S. where a nuclear reactor is under construction. David Humber, Getty Images A...

Hungary Toxic Sludge Disaster and 4 More Environmental Catastrophes

(Oct. 7) -- Unfortunately for Mother Earth, Hungary's toxic sludge disaster is not the first time a containment dam has failed, unleashing rivers of chemicals into the environment. Below are four other recent disasters, with similar characteristics. 1. Kingston Fossil Plant, Tennessee, 2008 In December 2008, the holding...

Opinion: Is Obama Spurring Growth, or Knocking It Down?

(July 8) -- Government can spur the private sector. That's the gist of the argument that's in the air this summer. This week, for example, President Barack Obama said, "we've got much more work to do to spur stronger job growth and to keep the larger recovery moving." Such spurring is often said to occur in a technical...

Tennessee Valley Authority News From the Web

05/18/12 Today in History - The Tennessee Valley Authority was... Source: Gaston Gazette - Gastonia NC Today is Friday, May 18, the 139th day of 2012.
05/15/12 Following an investigation by the Tennessee Valley... Source: Chattanoogan.com - Chattanooga TN Following an investigation by the Tennessee Valley Authority, four Alabama men have been fined in federal court in connection with the theft of cultural artifacts from TVA property.
05/11/12 http://is.gd/LSH3YS Source: Tri-City Herald The Energy Northwest Executive Board voted Thursday to spend $711 million to buy fuel it will not use until 2021 to 2028 in an unusual deal to supply its nuclear power plant near Richland.
05/01/12 Tennessee Valley Authority starts operations of 800MW... Source: Power Technology The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has started commercial operations at the 880MW John Sevier combined cycle plant located near Rogersville in the US state of Tennessee.

Background on Tennessee Valley Authority

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression.

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