Staff photo by Jake Daniels/Chattanooga Times Free Press — Aug 20, 2010
Pictured are the cooling towers at the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant on Friday afternoon.TVA is sending out its 2012 Sequoyah calendar — a yearly packet of pretty pictures and important emergency information about how to protect yourself in the event of a nuclear accident at Sequoyah Nuclear Plant in Soddy-Daisy.
And the utility is planning to spend about $7 million to replace all the sirens at all three of its nuclear plants in the coming year.
“They will have backup battery power and in some, we’ll have remote radiation monitors,” said Russell Thompson, the Tennessee Valley Authority’s emergency preparedness manager for Sequoyah.
He said TVA will begin the work at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant near Athens, Ala., where April tornadoes destroyed many of the existing sirens.
In all, the utility will replace 307 sirens: 108 at Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, 99 at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant and 100 around Browns Ferry.