{"545391":{"#nid":"545391","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Brown on Committee for Historic Event in the Nuclear Industry","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis\u0026nbsp;past 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.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMarilyn Brown\u003C\/strong\u003E, the Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems in the Ivan Allen College School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, chairs\u0026nbsp;the TVA Nuclear Oversight Committee. She explains the importance of this\u0026nbsp;achievement.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA new source of nuclear power is coming from the Tennessee Valley Authority Watts Bar reactor Unit 2, which is located\u0026nbsp;50 miles north of Chattanooga, Tenn. When the reactors safely connected to the electric system this past weekend, nuclear-powered electricity from the new\u0026nbsp;unit was delivered for the first time to TVA customers.\u0026nbsp; These customers are families, businesses, and industries across\u0026nbsp;seven\u0026nbsp;states,\u0026nbsp;including a portion of northern Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is a significant achievement as we all work to identify least-cost clean power pathways that will lower household electricity bills and reduce\u0026nbsp;pollution. Nuclear energy provides one of the major opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions since it is essentially a carbon-free resource (as are wind power, solar power, and energy efficiency). Nuclear power has provided some of the least-cost electricity in the TVA system.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen fully operational,\u0026nbsp;Watts Bar Unit 2 will generate approximately the same\u0026nbsp;amount\u0026nbsp;of electricity as reactor\u0026nbsp;Units 1 and 2\u0026nbsp;at\u0026nbsp;Georgia\u0027s\u0026nbsp;Plant Vogtle located\u0026nbsp;near Waynesboro,\u0026nbsp;Georgia, where two more reactors are under construction.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis weekend\u0026nbsp;a big step was taken toward\u0026nbsp;cleaner power systems in the Southeast.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Marilyn Brown chaied the TVA Nuclear Oversight Committee which oversaw the first U.S. nuclear generation of the 21st century is connected.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor of Sustainable Systems chairs TVA Nuclear Oversight Committee during momentous occasion."}],"uid":"32716","created_gmt":"2016-06-16 13:56:20","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:57","author":"Hayden Russell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/brown","title":"Marilyn Brown, Ph.D."},{"url":"http:\/\/www.spp.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Public Policy"},{"url":"http:\/\/amplifier.gatech.edu\/articles\/2016\/06\/historic-moment-nuclear-industry","title":"Amplifier Article"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"8681","name":"Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College School of Public Policy"},{"id":"330","name":"Marilyn Brown"},{"id":"12430","name":"nuclear energy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E404.894.1720\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}