{"543781":{"#nid":"543781","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Making History! TVA Safely Connects A New Source of Nuclear Power","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELast weekend,\u0026nbsp;licensed reactor operators at the Tennessee Valley Authority\u0026nbsp;safely connected a new source of nuclear power\u0026nbsp;to its electric system.\u0026nbsp;It is an historic moment for the nuclear industry because it is\u0026nbsp;the first new U.S.\u0026nbsp;nuclear generation of the 21st century. The\u0026nbsp;new source of nuclear power\u0026nbsp;is coming from\u0026nbsp;TVA\u0027s\u0026nbsp;Watts Bar reactor Unit 2 located\u0026nbsp;50 miles north of Chattanooga, Tennessee.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis achievement was made possible by years of effort by\u0026nbsp;numerous TVA\u0026nbsp;employees, leaders and workers alike, as well as teams of regulators, contractors,\u0026nbsp;advisors,\u0026nbsp;and members of the TVA Nuclear Oversight Committee, including\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca title=\u0022Marilyn Brown\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/91044ab3-9e96-5940-80a3-46f80924f3d1\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDr.\u0026nbsp;Marilyn Brown\u003C\/a\u003E, Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u0026nbsp;Dr. Brown has chaired the TVA\u0027s Nuclear Oversight Committee for most of\u0026nbsp;the last\u0026nbsp;five years when the bulk of the construction of the new unit took pace and\u0026nbsp;during two terms as an appointee by President Obama to the TVA Board of Directors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen TVA\u0027s\u0026nbsp;reactor operators safely connected Watts Bar Unit 2 to the TVA electric system this weekend,\u0026nbsp;the nuclear-powered electricity output from Unit 2 was\u0026nbsp;delivered for the first time to TVA\u0027s customers. These customers include\u0026nbsp;families, businesses and industries across\u0026nbsp;seven\u0026nbsp;states,\u0026nbsp;including a portion of northern Georgia. For the past several decades,TVA\u0027s nuclear power has provided some of the least-cost electricity in its system. And, as noted by Dr. Brown, \u0022Nuclear energy provides one of the major opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions since it is essentially a carbon-free resource.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"15436","created_gmt":"2016-06-10 08:56:29","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:28:14","author":"Automator","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"ge tech","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.amplifier.gatech.edu\/articles\/2016\/06\/historic-moment-nuclear-industry","dateline":{"date":"2016-06-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-06-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"}],"keywords":[{"id":"12430","name":"nuclear energy"},{"id":"3517","name":"power"},{"id":"169190","name":"sustainable systems"},{"id":"9990","name":"TVA"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}