TVA
Today: Daily
news for employees Thursday,
October 16, 2003 Informative
New Brochures on TVA Generation Available Online Three
new brochures about TVA hydro, fossil and nuclear facilities are now available
on TVAs external Web site.
These colorful brochures, which provide information for TVA stakeholders and visitors
to TVA facilities, offer an overview of how these facilities operate. Here are
brief descriptions of each brochure:
Dams and Hydro Plants This brochure tells readers about the vital
role of TVAs 29 conventional hydroelectric dams and one pumped-storage plant
in the TVA power system. It includes sections on the integrated approach TVA uses
to manage the river system, the priority of safety at these dams (plus an additional
20 nonpower dams) and the emphasis on protecting aquatic life below the dams.
It also offers a brief overview of how hydroelectric power is generated.
Fossil Plants This brochure provides an overview of TVAs 11
coal-fired plants, which provide about 50 percent of the companys generating
capacity. The brochure also includes a section on how TVA has invested more than
$3 billion in emission-control equipment at these plants since the mid-1970s,
with that total scheduled to increase to $6 billion with additional equipment
that is being installed. Other sections look at how these fossil-fueled plants
and TVAs 72 combustion turbines operate.
Nuclear Plants This brochure offers background information about
TVAs three operating nuclear plants, which are among the most efficient
nuclear plants in the country. It also includes a section explaining how nuclear
reactors produce heat to generate electricity, along with illustrations of how
Browns Ferrys boiling-water reactors and Sequoyahs and Watts Bars
pressurized-water reactors operate. The brochure tells about TVAs commitment
to safety and explains how TVA works closely with federal, state and local agencies.
These new brochures replace other older ones on the same topics. They are available
online at http://www.tva.com/news/index.htm,
along with other TVA brochures. Smoky
Mountain CFC Deadline Oct. 30; Upcoming Days of Caring Employees
and contractors are reminded that the deadline for turning in pledge cards for
the Smoky Mountain Region Combined Federal Campaign is Oct. 30.
Employee pledges and special events have raised almost $349,000 so far, which
represents 78 percent of the campaigns goal of $450,000.
CFC pledge dollars help provide meals for hungry children, relief for families
in need of counseling, research to find cures for diseases, environmental protection,
better lives and renewed hope for the less fortunate in our communities, and much
more.
Those who dont have a pledge card should contact their organization coordinator
to request one.
Volunteers needed for upcoming Days of Caring Volunteers
are needed to participate in the Smoky Mountain Region CFC Days of Caring listed
below. Those interested in volunteering should e-mail Theresa
Lyon.
Oct. 20 Knox County Association for
Retarded Citizens Volunteers are needed to help with yard work at a
residence on Murray Road in Knoxville.
Oct. 20-31 Knox
Area Rescue Ministries Three volunteers are needed for data entry,
which includes entering names of area families to receive Thanksgiving baskets.
Date
to be determined Humane
Society No Kill Shelter Volunteers are needed to paint the interior
of the Spay & Neuter Clinic on Chapman Highway in Seymour, Tenn.
Date to be determined Haslam
Center Boys Home Help is needed to paint home interior.
Date to be determined Aides to Distressed
Families of Anderson County Volunteers from Bull Run Fossil Plant will
help build a handicap ramp at a family residence. Note: A sufficient number
of volunteers have already signed up for this Day of Caring activity.
Chattanooga
IEEE Computer Group Meeting Today The
Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers Computer Society will have
a luncheon meeting today in Chattanooga. The meeting will be at 11:30 a.m. in
Room 1S 333 in the Missionary Ridge Building.
Bradley Carlson from NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center will discuss advanced
propulsion systems for the next generation of space vehicles. He also will offer
insight into the National Aeronautics & Space Administrations current
and future plans for space exploration.
Carlsons talk will include a discussion of the future of the manned space
program and the challenges of sending a manned mission to Mars. Topics will include
the need to maintain the International Space Station, the Next Generation Launch
Technology Program that will replace the Space Shuttle Fleet and Nuclear Propulsion
one of the possible forms of in-space propulsion that may be used on a
future flight to Mars.
Guests are welcome. Pizza and soft drinks will be available for $5 per person.
Attendees who plan to eat lunch should call or e-mail Sandeep
Sadanandan (751-8905). Muscle
Shoals Oct. 21 ASPE Meeting To Include Tour of Colbert The
Muscle Shoals Chapter of the Alabama Society of Professional Engineers will meet
at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21, at Colbert Fossil Plant.
Steve Merry, a Systems Engineer at Colbert, will host chapter members and other
guests on a tour of the coal-fired power plant. Merry also will discuss current
and planned air-pollution-control projects at Colbert.
The program is intended to provide one professional-development-hour (PDH) credit
toward Professional Engineers license renewal, as each engineer deems appropriate.
Note: TVA Police need an advance attendance count, so anyone who wants
to participate should call or e-mail Don
Lokey (386-2035) by 4 p.m. CDT Friday, Oct. 17.
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