Tennessee Valley Authority headquarters and TVA logoAS THE CROW FLIES• Sequoyah to Chattanooga: 17.6 miles• Watts Bar to Chattanooga: 48.4 miles• Browns Ferry to Chattanooga: 105.3 miles• Bellefonte to Chattanooga: 41.8 milesSource: Google Maps Distance Calculator
TVA has garnered another safety flag from the Nuclear Regulatory Agency — the fourth in just over a year.
The newest — a “white” finding — comes at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant near Athens, Ala., which already has been under a “red” safety finding since May 2011.
An NRC letter to TVA dated June 22 says the reactor operators at Browns Ferry do not understand and know how to implement 5-month-old NRC and TVA procedures for responding to a plant fire.
And their TVA trainers didn’t know how, either.