TVA Takes Over Bechtel's Construction Management of Nuke Plant

TVA’s board of directors authorized the completion of the plant in August 2007. The project was put on an aggressive five-year completion schedule, TVA said.

Mary B. Powers has reported on engineering and construction issues in the global energy and environmental sectors for more than 30 years from Washington, D.C. and Birmingham, Ala. She formerly wrote for the Platt's group of energy sector publications under McGraw Hill and S&P Global that included Inside Energy and Megawatt Daily, and was state editor for the Lexington, Ky., Herald Leader. Mary has a master’s degree in journalism from The American University.