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From the Tennova Healthcare Cleveland News Desk, here are your news headlines for Tuesday, March 21st, on Mix 104-1 and Talk 101-3 The Buzz. Toppin

From the Tennova Healthcare Cleveland News Desk, here are your news headlines for Tuesday, March 21st, on Mix 104-1 and Talk 101-3 The Buzz.


Topping our news today…

Detectives from the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office have charged William Wilson Krisle in connection with the burglary of a residence on Old Harrison Pike.

The occupant filed a report with the sheriff’s office on March 13th stating some money was missing from the residence.

Evidence gathered during the investigation by the Criminal Investigations Division implicated Krisle, age 29, in the burglary. He was arrested without incident and is charged with Aggravated Burglary and Theft under $1,000.


From the Cleveland Daily Banner…

It was a day of show-and-tell at a recent session of the Cleveland Board of Public Utilities.

Bart Borden, vice president of the Electric Division, spent much of his report time discussing new and needed equipment, including a high-technology drone.

Borden announced that electrical engineer Jeff Luther, and engineering technician Nathan Casteel, have obtained their Federal Aviation Administration drone licenses by passing the FAA’s federal examination.

The drone was placed in operation over the Payne Gap Substation power transformer, over the new Mayor Tom Rowland Interchange in Southwest Cleveland (near the APD 40 Bypass and Exit 20 on Interstate 75), as well as aerial views of the utility’s power service center.

Luther said the drone had a range of about four miles, but it has to be in his line of sight for operation and utilization.


From the Chattanooga Times Free Press…

Both units of TVA’s newest nuclear power plant are shut down today after plant workers idled one unit for routine refueling on Saturday and shut down the other unit yesterday morning when problems were detected in the pumps on the non-nuclear part of the plant.

The shutdown cuts TVA’s power generation by up to 2,400 megawatts of electricity compared with last week when both Watts Bar units were operating at full power. That’s enough to power to supply the electrical demands for about 1.3 million homes in the Tennessee Valley.

TVA spokesman Jim Hopson said today the refueling and maintenance outage of Unit 1 has been planned for weeks and will bring an extra 800 temporary contract and TVA workers to the site over the next month. Two days after TVA began the refueling outage of Unit 1, the newest reactor at Watts Bar also was shut down today after plant operators detected problems in a pump, or possibly several pumps, in the turbine building for Unit 2.

Hopson said operators shut down the Unit 2 reactor to assess and fix the pump problem. TVA had several such unplanned outages on the Unit 2 reactor after it began generating power last year for the first time. But since the unit 2 became a commercial unit and began consistent power generation in October, the unit has operated continuously without any major problems, Hopson said.


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