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Other Long-Term Assets | 12 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2011
Deferred Costs, Capitalized, Prepaid, and Other Assets Disclosure [Abstract] |
Other Long-Term Assets | Other Long-Term Assets The table below summarizes the types and amounts of TVA’s Other long-term assets:
Other Long-Term Assets At September 30
| 2011 |  | 2010
Coal contract derivative assets | $ | 285 |  |  | $ | 103 |
Loans and other long-term receivables, net | 74 |  |  | 68 |
Other long-term assets | 13 |  |  | 20 |
Total other long-term assets | $ | 372 |  |  | $ | 191 |

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