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The Real TVA Problem at Belleforte
Posted on September 01, 2008
Dan Yurman has an interesting account of the TVA Bellefonte units 1 and 2 story. Bellefonte 1 and 2 were reactors that TVA suspended construction on in 1988, and surrendered their construction license for in 2006. Now two years later TVA wants the NRC to reinstate the construction license for the two Generation II reactors. TVA in the mean time had filed a licensing application to build two new Westinghouse AP-1000s at Bellefonte. Clearly some explanation is in order. Yurman explains that the cost od new reactor construction and TVA which was speaking confidently of reactor construction pr...
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