Also note that the Army Core of Engineers does not have authority over all that TVA does. For example, while the ACoE runs hydroelectric dams along the Cumberland River, TVA runs the ones on the Tennessee River. Except that there is still some corp involvement in the system of locks along the Tennessee river.
I don’t think that the ACoE is involved at all in TVA’s nuclear plants, nor their coal and natural gas plants. This was to be one of 4 nuclear plants that TVA was going to build but abandoned in the 80s. There is about 30 feet of the cooling tower that was never built at Phipps Bend up in northeast Tennessee. It was to be one of those nuclear plants.
Imma go back and look. I didn’t evaluate for ‘floodplain’ impacts (inside/ouside levee).
I just like watching sh*t being blowed up!