Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire: After the Tsunami – TVA’s Response to the Nuclear Crisis in Japan Colloquium and Webcast

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

After the Tsunami – TVA’s Response to the Nuclear Crisis in Japan Colloquium and Webcast

Subject: U. of Tennessee NE Dept. Colloquium and Webcast

Topic: After the Tsunami – TVA’s Response to the Nuclear Crisis in Japan

Speaker: Bill McCollum
Chief Operating Officer

Tennessee Valley Authority
Chattanooga, TN

When: 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Where: 308 Pasqua Engineering Building

Viewers of the live webcast (http://www.engr.utk.edu/nuclear/colloquia/) may submit questions and/or comments to the speaker either before or during the live webcast via an email message to utne@utk.edu. The speaker will address the questions and comments at the end of the presentation. Please include your name and affiliation in your email message. Viewers who miss the live webcast can view the archived webcast, which is usually posted within 24 hours, at http://www.engr.utk.edu/nuclear/colloquia/Archive/. Viewers may also receive the speaker's slides in PDF format via email request to Kristin England (kengland@utk.edu) after the live webcast.

Abstract:

Mr. McCollum will discuss the history of TVA's nuclear program and steps TVA is taking in conjunction with other nuclear power plant operators to learn from events in Japan. He will discuss similarities and critical differences between the afflicted Fukushima Dai-ichi plant and TVA's Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, and he will describe steps TVA is taking to assure that lessons from the Japanese accident are thoroughly incorporated by TVA.