Cumberland Fossil Plant

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

Wet limestone scrubbers remove 95 percent of sulfur dioxide from the plant’s emissions.
Both units are equipped with selective catalytic reduction systems completed in 2004 and low-NOx burners that reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by about 90 percent.

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Toxics Release Inventory

All amounts are in pounds

Chemical	Air	Water	Land	Off-Site Disposal	Total
Hydrochloric Acid (aerosol)	240,000	0	0	0	240,000
Hydrogen Fluoride	58,000	0	0	0	58,000
Sulfuric Acid (aerosol)	2,700,000	0	0	0	2,700,000
Ammonia	60,510	1,800	0	0	62,310
Antimony Compounds
Arsenic Compounds	127	160	25,390	2	25,679
Barium Compounds	248	0	430,000	44	430,292
Beryllium Compounds	7	0	5,931	0	5,938
Cadmium Compounds
Chromium Compounds	274	0	56,100	2	56,376
Cobalt Compounds	49	0	12,400	0	12,449
Copper Compounds	217	6,500	39,480	0	46,197
Lead Compounds	181	0	33,740	6	33,927
Manganese Compounds	441	76	133,000	0	133,517
Mercury Compounds	130	0	229	0	359
Nickel Compounds	372	1,500	57,710	0	59,582
Selenium Compounds	2,001	4,700	3,970	0	10,671
Silver Compounds
Thallium Compounds	31	0	17,750	0	17,781
Vanadium Compounds	226	7,100	116,000	0	123,326
Zinc Compounds	1,532	5,600	139,600	0	146,732
Benzo(g,h,i)perylene	0	0	0	0	1
Naphthalene	83	0	0	0	83
Nitrate Compounds	0	200,000	0	0	200,000
Dioxin (grams)	3	0	0	0	3
Dioxin (lbs)	0	0	0	0	0
Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds	42	0	13	0	55
Hydrazine					0
Total	3,064,471	227,436	1,071,313	54	4,363,274