KNOXVILLE - The Tennessee Valley Authority is the leader among
America's utilities in developing new nuclear energy and should
continue to build more reactors, U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.,
said today.
Alexander, co-chairman of the TVA Congressional Caucus, praised the
vision for TVA's future adopted by the TVA board and management last
month. He urged new directors sworn into office today to continue
TVA's 77-year-old mission of providing low-cost power for the 7-state
TVA region.
"TVA should be the national leader in developing new nuclear plants,
and in fact, it already is," Alexander told the TVA board today. "It
has the expertise with more than 3,000 people today working on
building more nuclear power (at the Watts Bar plant in Tennessee and
the Bellefonte plant in Alabama) and no one else can say that."
The new members of the TVA board sworn into office today were Barbara
Haskew, 70, a Middle Tennessee State University professor emeritus
iwho lives in Chattanooga; Marilyn Brown, 61, a professor at Georgia
Tech in Atlanta; Oak Ridge attorney Neil McBride, 64, and Bill Sansom,
69, a former TVA chairman and chief executive of H.T. Hackney Co. In
Knoxville.
For complete details, see tomorrow's Chattanooga Times Free Press.