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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 TVA’s 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 TVA’s 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 TVA’s 11 coal-fired plants, which provide about 50 percent of the company’s 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 TVA’s 72 combustion turbines – operate.

Nuclear Plants – This brochure offers background information about TVA’s 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 Ferry’s boiling-water reactors and Sequoyah’s and Watts Bar’s pressurized-water reactors operate. The brochure tells about TVA’s 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 campaign’s 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 don’t 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 NASA’s 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 Administration’s current and future plans for space exploration.

Carlson’s 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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