The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has extended the time for TVA to meet a new fire protection requirement at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant.
New nuclear emergency preparedness requirements have come under fire nationally, with some saying the new guidelines weaken planning.
TENNGA, Tenn. -- Nearly two years ago, Tennessee Aquarium researchers and other conservationists snorkeled the upper reaches of the Conasauga River looking for one of the rarest darters in North America -- the 6-inch Conasauga logperch.
Despite recent rains, several reservoirs managed by TVA have lower water levels because of below-normal rain and runoff this spring.
Hamilton County corrections officer Jonathan Walker says he knew he might be laying his job on the line Wednesday when he appeared before county commissioners to ask for a raise for the department's officers.
TVA's nuclear operations chief told officials with the Nuclear Regulatory Agency on Tuesday that Browns Ferry is not ready yet for a third and final special NRC inspection to clear its "red" safety rating.
Think of the Tennessee River as a 652-mile interstate highway. Imagine the creeks and smaller river tributaries as nearly 350 miles of secondary and community roads.
Sen. Lamar Alexander took in the Tennessee River Gorge on Saturday behind the wheel of the Blue Moon, a 70-foot Chattanooga charter boat.
The nuclear disaster in Japan and the abandonment of a spent fuel repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev., have prompted TVA to consider a $298 million contract for giant concrete and steel casks to store nuclear waste outside its operating plants.
Fannin County Environmental Health officials say a fox that attacked a Morganton, Ga., woman Friday has tested positive for rabies.
After 18 months of training, 13 employees at TVA’s Sequoyah Nuclear Plant have passed exams administered by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and now are licensed to operate or supervise the operation of the two nuclear reactors at Sequoyah.
Fannin County Environmental Health officials say a fox that attacked a Morganton woman Friday has tested positive for rabies.
The once tree-lined drive along Stringer's Ridge on U.S. Highway 27 between Red Bank and Chattanooga is becoming treeless.
With a net loss for the second quarter and a projected loss for the budget year, TVA officials said the utility's "diet and exercise plan" involves trimming about 1,000 jobs and delaying some capital projects -- including work to complete Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant.
Visitors and guests from as far away as Great Britain are here to celebrate the state of Tennessee's acquisition of the Laurel-Snow State Natural Area, now 2,259 acres.
With a net loss for the second quarter and a projected loss for the fiscal year, TVA officials said the utility’s “diet and exercise plan” involves trimming about 1,000 jobs and delaying some capital projects — including work to complete Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant.
A fatal bat disease, white-nose syndrome, has been found in a cave in the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park.
A fatal bat disease, white-nose syndrome, has been found in a cave in the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park.
When the Tennessee Aquarium’s new River Giants exhibit opens today, its global collection of freshwater megafish marks more than just the 20th anniversary of the aquarium’s first day.
It wasn't supposed to happen -- not like this. Swarms of tornadoes threw cars and blasted apart homes and neighborhoods. The violence of wave after wave of storms surprised even the veteran meteorologists who, for days, had been sounding warnings about the weather's potential for disaster.
TVA, under fire for nuclear construction overruns, is on a road to having its first ever net loss year, its board was told Thursday.“TVA expects to end fiscal year 2012 with revenues between $500 million and $600 million below plan,” Chief Financial Officer John Thomas said, blaming unusually mild weather and a slowly recovering economy for sluggish power sales.
The board of the Tennessee Valley Authority on Thursday agreed to continue with the completion of Watts Bar Nuclear Plant’s unit 2 reactor despite delays and cost overruns.
S. David Freeman, a Chattanooga native and former TVA board member told the Tennessee Valley Authority board this morning they should stop building their nuclear power program.
The Chattanooga region in 1940 was just waking up from the Great Depression.
Bob Colby says there was a silver lining to last year's April 27 tornado, which blew away his Apison house, badly injured his wife and bruised him from head to toe. It probably saved his life. The full-body scan performed on him at Erlanger hospital the morning after the tornado was aimed at finding internal injuries.
The rescue of a young bald eagle on New Year's Day came full circle Wednesday when the rehabilitated bird was reintroduced to the wild near the Chickamauga Dam.
Bird enthusiasts welcomed home a young female bald eagle today when the rehabilitated bird — found injured near DuPont Parkway last winter — was reintroduced to the wild near the Chickamauga Dam.
For Jordyn Miller, freedom came with a cold, wet nose. She was supposed to be walking again in just a few months, free of the electric scooter that has become her only means of getting around.
A new TVA policy to cut -- not trim -- all trees from its 16,000 miles of transmission tower rights-of-way in the Tennessee Valley has run into a buzzsaw.
Harry Hawkins lives a pasture away from the prospective site of the first deep coal mine to be part of Walden's Ridge life in nearly 100 years. But it won't be new to him, or to many of his Dayton Mountain neighbors in Rhea County.
Tennessee and Georgia are among 15 states to receive a share of $40.6 million from the U.S. Forest Service. National foresters in Tennessee are receiving $5 million to complete the $40 million purchase of a 10,000-acre tract called Rocky Fork to add to the Cherokee National Forest.
TVA's acknowledgment Thursday that finishing the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant's Unit 2 reactor will take three more years and up to $2 billion in added costs has critics calling for the TVA board to rethink its emphasis on nuclear energy.
The cost of completing a second reactor at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant will likely cost TVA as much as $2 billion more than originally forecast and is projected to take two years longer than what TVA previously thought.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has lifted the “white” safety concerns at Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, TVA officials announced this morning.
Monday's 88 degrees tied a 1940 record high for an April 2 spring day in Chattanooga. And Tuesday was close with 87 degrees. The record for April 3 remains at 89 in 1999.
One lesson learned from the region's tornadoes over the past year is resulting in a sirens upgrade for all three TVA nuclear plants, beginning with Browns Ferry near Athens, Ala.
Just as the Civil War became a watershed event in the nation's history by moving the country closer to the tenets of its founding documents, the battles for control of Chattanooga nearly 150 years ago marked a turning point in the Union's quest of Southern strongholds.
TVA went sport fishing Tuesday in Chickamauga Lake, and what fish experts netted was loads of data.
From the ground, it's hard to tell that a giant has been watching over Rossville Boulevard.
Opponents of mountaintop coal mining haven’t given up after Tennessee senators, in what they called “a calculated act of political cowardice,” last week delayed a vote on the Scenic Vistas Protection Act.
A disease that already has killed nearly 7 million bats in the eastern United States in the past five winters has hit home in one of the region’s best-known cave systems.
TVA on Thursday laid off about half of the 900 contractors working on the Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant project.
A third of TVA's six reactors -- one at Sequoyah and one at Browns Ferry nuclear plants -- have been given a bad grade by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, according to NRC's newest annual assessment.
With this year's and next year's 150th anniversary of the Civil War actions near and in Chattanooga, the new battle is one for history-vacation dollars.
One year after an earthquake, tsunami and three nuclear meltdowns in Fukushima, Japan, 100,000 evacuees still can’t go home, but Americans are being told the health threat there from radiation is minimal.
The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Air Pollution Control Bureau is issuing free storm debris burn permits for residents in unincorporated Hamilton County who were directly affected by Friday’s EF3 tornado.
The Tennessee Valley Authority continues to repair tornado damage to its power transmission lines from Friday’s storms, spokeswoman Myra Ireland said.
Don Benton stared across the Savannah Bay from his home that no longer had walls. The 78-year-old stood near his kitchen, where the fridge was tilted on its side with the door ajar. His study still had books on the shelf but rubble for a floor. Instead of a roof he had open cloudy skies above.
Tennessee Valley Authority is reporting storm damage to its transmission power grid in Hamilton and Bradley counties and in North Alabama.
