TVA’s Browns Ferry road to recovery
The
Browns Ferry nuclear power plant is located on the Tennessee River near
Decatur and Athens, Alabama. The site, which has three General Electric
boiling water reactors, is owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority.In 1974, the time of its initial operation, Browns Ferry was the largest nuclear plant in the world. In 2006, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission renewed the licenses for all three Browns Ferry reactors, extending each one for an additional 20 years.
NRC findings
One reactor at the Browns Ferry plant currently carries a “red” finding from the NRC in 2011. That finding stemmed from a faulty valve on a reactor shutdown cooling system that went unnoticed for 18 months until it was needed in a routine shutdown. A backup system intended for use in the event of fire was employed to safely take the reactor off line.
All three Browns Ferry units also carry a “white” finding from a recent NRC inspection that found plant operators and staff would not have been able to satisfactorily perform newly implemented procedures for safe plant shutdown.
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