NASHVILLE - Federal regulators have fined the nation’s largest public utility $145,000 for submitting incomplete and inaccurate information on a backup system at its Watts Bar Nuclear Plant. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission notified the Tennessee Valley Authority of the proposed fine regarding the Spring City, Tennessee plant in a Nov. 19 letter. The utility, in turn, says it has taken corrective action, adding that the backup configuration was never used. According to the commission, the incorrect and inaccurate information that the utility provided from July 2010 to January 2015 didn’t result in consequences, but it was used in part to approve reactor licensing requests at the plant. TVA spokesman Jim Hopson said the federal utility inadvertently used the inaccurate information to develop a configuration that would have been rarely used.

Source: thestar December 03, 2019 19:18 UTC