Widows Creek Fossil Plant Emissions

What TVA is doing about emissions at Widows Creek

TVA has taken a number of steps to make the efficient generation of power at Widows Creek as clean as possible:

Unit 7 is equipped with an electrostatic precipitator to remove particulates, a wet limestone scrubber to remove additional particulates and sulfur dioxide emissions, and low-NOx burners and SCR to reduce nitrogen oxides emissions by about 90 percent.
Unit 7 will be retired by Sept. 30, 2015.
Unit 8 was idled on Oct. 1, 2014, and will be retired.
In support of environmental agreements the plant’s six other units were idled on Oct. 1, 2011 and have been retired.

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All amounts are in pounds

Chemical	Air	Water	Land	Off-Site Disposal	Total
Hydrochloric Acid (aerosol)	46,000	0	0	0	46,000
Hydrogen Fluoride	4,300	0	0	0	4,300
Sulfuric Acid (aerosol)	680,000	0	0	0	680,000
Ammonia	3,800	0	0	0	3,800
Antimony Compounds
Arsenic Compounds
Barium Compounds	82	4,500	62,000	595	67,177
Beryllium Compounds
Cadmium Compounds
Chromium Compounds	76	77	23,000	30	23,183
Cobalt Compounds
Copper Compounds
Lead Compounds	58	0	19,000	30	19,088
Manganese Compounds	119	8,800	49,000	0	57,919
Mercury Compounds	9	0	100	1	110
Nickel Compounds	83	730	26,000	0	26,813
Selenium Compounds
Silver Compounds
Thallium Compounds
Vanadium Compounds	81	1,700	50,000	0	51,781
Zinc Compounds	686	1,800	71,000	0	73,486
Benzo(g,h,i)perylene	0	0	0	0	0
Naphthalene
Nitrate Compounds	0	51,000	0	0	51,000
Dioxin (grams)	0	0	0	0	0
Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds	2	0	3	0	5
Hydrazine
Total	735,296	68,607	300,103	657	1,104,662
Gross MWh Generated:	1,798,791
Pounds Released per MWh:	0.614