Here's an excerpt from a great article by Anne Paine (The Tennessean) on the TVA Board's upcoming Bellefonte decision:
Tennessee Valley Authority board members are looking with favor on nuclear power as they prepare to vote Thursday on whether to complete a nuclear reactor at the Bellefonte site 110 miles southeast of Nashville.
At least one freshly appointed member is studied in energy efficiency and alternative energy sources, which represents a new day for the body. However, even Marilyn A. Brown, an advocate of efficiency and alternatives who joined the TVA board in October, is far from anti-nuclear.
“Ultimately, we’re going to need more renewables,” said Brown, a professor of energy policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
“I’ve always been pro-nuclear as an interim measure. For now, we really can’t live without nuclear while we wait for the price of renewables and alternatives to come down.”
The rest of the article includes reaction from other TVA Board members and a look at some of the issues with Bellefonte's revival that have stirred controversy.
Bellefonte: a Nuclear Generating Station in name only. [Photo credit: Tholcomb]
In my previous post I included a video and links to a report released last week by the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. Anne Paine wrote another article on Bellefonte last Wednesday in which she reported TVA's reaction to the SACE paper.
Regardless of your position on Bellefonte, both of Paine's articles, the Gunderson video and the SACE report are worth reading.
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