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A small fire broke out Friday at a nuclear fuel plant in the village of Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, but did not cause any injuries or environmental damage, said the operator of the plant, which was scolded for delaying the report. The Ibaraki Prefectural Government told Mitsubishi Nuclear Fuel Co. to promptly report fires to local authorities in the future after learning that the company waited for about 30 minutes to report the fire, prefectural officials said.
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French authorities are not considering evacuation around Tricastin, according to the deputy prefect of the Vaucluse departement (county), Jean-Charles Geray. He was responding September 22 to media queries after the antinuclear organization Sortir du Nucleaire, or SdN, issued a press release saying there was the possibility of imminent danger connected with a fuel handling mishap at Electricite de France's Tricastin-2 on September 8.
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Oconee Nuclear Station should have responded faster when a control room alarm warning of radiation levels activated for 8-1/2 hours in April, a Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman said last week. No enforcement action was taken against Duke Energy by the federal agency because the incident was of low safety significance, said NRC spokesman Roger Hannah. The Union of Concerned Scientists had criticized Oconee Nuclear Station last week for exposing workers to "dangerous" radiation levels and not responding to the alarm for 8-1/2 hours during which time a containment hatch was opened and workers were sent into the reactor building.
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THE rest of the world has mostly forgotten, but a brush with nuclear Armageddon more than 40 years ago is still seared in the minds of many residents of a small Spanish fishing town. On the morning of January 17, 1966, a US Air Force B-52 bomber returning from a routine mission collided with a tanker aircraft that was to refuel it.
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BRIDGMAN — Fire crews were called to battle a small fire at the Cook Nuclear Plant, along Red Arrow Highway in Bridgman. Firefighters were called to put out the fire in a nonnuclear part of the plant, said Cook spokesman Bill Schalk late Saturday.
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DETAILS OF a serious fire hazard at the Hunterston nuclear power station in North Ayrshire have been kept secret because they could aid a terrorist attack. The government's Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has refused to release information about a "specific fire scenario" at the reactors because to do so could "threaten national security". The revelation has prompted calls from environmentalists for the plant to be shut down as soon as possible. But its operator, British Energy, said that it was working to improve safety.
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A big fire broke out last month in China`s biggest nuclear power plant in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, and though a radiation leak was suspected, Chinese media did not report the accident, the Hong Kong daily Ming Pao said yesterday. The daily said the fire occurred Aug. 26 after a transformer at the Tianwan nuclear plant exploded. Fourteen fire engines and 66 firefighters were dispatched to the scene, but it took more than five hours to put out the blaze.
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Oconee Nuclear Station should have responded faster when a control room alarm warning of radiation levels activated for 81/2 hours in April, a Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman said Wednesday. No enforcement action was taken against Duke Energy by the federal agency because the incident was of low safety significance, said NRC spokesman Roger Hannah. The Union of Concerned Scientists had criticized Oconee Nuclear Station on Tuesday for exposing workers to "dangerous" radiation levels and not responding to the alarm for 81/2 hours, during which time a containment hatch was opened and workers were sent into the reactor building.
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Twenty-two years ago, the most serious accident in nuclear history disrupted the lives of millions of people. Massive amounts of radioactive materials were released into the environment resulting in a radioactive cloud that spread over much of Europe. The greatest contamination occurred around the Chernobyl nuclear power station in areas that are now part of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. People in Czechoslovakia were not in acute danger, but like others in the communist block they learnt about the nuclear accident many days after it happened and the media censorship ordered by the communist regime prevented them from taking even the most basic precautions.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region III office in Lisle, Ill., activated its Incident Response Center today to monitor an unusual event declared at the Monticello Nuclear Power Plant. The plant, operated by Xcel Energy, is located in Monticello, Minn. The unusual event was declared at 10:30 a.m. when a contractor struck a power line, which resulted in a loss of power to non-safety equipment. The contractor was taken to an area hospital and pronounced dead, according to local authorities. The loss of power affected equipment necessary to provide cooling water to the reactor. Around 11:30 a.m. the plant restored the equipment necessary to provide cooling water support to the reactor in a shutdown condition.
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One little thing can turn into a big headache, or worse, said Jim Matteau, executive director of Windham Regional Commission. Matteau is concerned that an event that may not need to be reported according to Nuclear Regulatory Commission standards could cause a cascade of events requiring the notification of emergency planners and possible implementation of evacuation procedures. "We do these practices all the time and they always start with something simple," said Matteau.
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The Vermont Yankee nuclear plant is suffering from another problem with its cooling towers, with leaks of more than 60 gallons of water a minute attributed to faulty packing in pipe joints, officials said Wednesday. Spokesmen for Vermont Yankee owner Entergy Nuclear and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said the leaks were in sections of the Vermont Yankee's east cooling tower not considered key to plant safety.
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Cooling tower leakage forces power reduction BRATTLEBORO — There are more problems with the cooling towers at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. Entergy Nuclear officials announced Wednesday they had been forced to cut power production at the Vernon reactor to about 55 percent because of new problems with one of the plant's two cooling towers. The company said a packing material used in the expansion joints in the piping in the east tower had sprung a leak in three different locations, leaking a total of 60 gallons a minute.
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The cooling system at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant has sprung another leak - the third in just over a year. Plant officials say an expansion joint that carries water to the east cooling tower leaked more than 60 gallons of water a minute. The plant cut its power output in half while the problem was fixed.
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The Union of Concerned Scientists said Tuesday that Oconee Nuclear Station workers were exposed to "dangerous" levels of radiation due to "mishaps" during an April incident -- allegations Duke Energy denies. A Duke spokeswoman said Tuesday that areas of the reactor building were evacuated as a precaution, and workers weren't sent into high-radiation areas. Dave Lochbaum, director of nuclear safety projects for the union, said that during the shutdown "the company had damaged two reactor coolant pumps, unknowingly exceeded reactor cool-down limits and triggered a potentially disastrous loss-of-coolant accident."
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A series of mishaps that occurred during a recent refueling outage at Duke Energy's Oconee nuclear plant near Greenville, S.C. exposed workers to dangerous levels of radiation, the Union of Concerned Scientists reports. On April 12, the plant shut down for refueling -- the 24th such outage since the reactor began operating in the early 1970s. But practice clearly did not make perfect, as one mishap after another occurred during the 36-hour shutdown. By the time the outage was over, the company had damaged two reactor coolant pumps, unknowingly exceeded reactor cool-down limits, and triggered a potentially disastrous loss-of-coolant accident.
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A nuclear industry watchdog group has chided Duke Energy for the way the Charlotte-based energy company handled a recent scheduled refueling operation that included the replacement of coolant pumps and seals. During a routine shutdown of Unit 1 April 12 at the Oconee Nuclear Station on S.C. 130 north of Seneca vibrations were detected by monitors. Officials of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission conducted a special inspection to assess the circumstances associated with the high vibrations.
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Good morning and thank you for taking a few minutes from your busy schedules to be here today. The thoughts that I want to share with you today will be brief, but I assure you they are deeply felt, and I appreciate your interest in them. Like many other organizations, we memorialize our successes and hold forth our highest aspirations as reminders of what we are working toward – first among these being our mission and our values. However, we should also be ready to memorialize a weakness or a stumble as a reminder of the ever-present need to avoid the subtle complacency that may result from a long history of success. Today we dedicate such a memorial – one that I hope will continue to remind both our staff and our licensees not only of the vulnerability of technology to degradation, but also the vulnerability of people to complacency. Since the beginning of the
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Pacific Gas and Electric has restarted a reactor unit at Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant after an explosive transformer fire prompted a 20-day shutdown. The cause of the fire has been identified as the failure of a bushing that connects the transformer to the high-voltage transmission lines. The failure caused the bushing’s outer ceramic shell to disintegrate and ignited insulating oil.
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Neglected maintenance on the brakes on a Vermont Yankee refueling floor crane failed in May as it was holding a cask full of spent nuclear fuel because Entergy Nuclear failed to correct ongoing problems with the crane, a recently released inspection report from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission stated. The crane has accumulated seven problems in more than three years, a result of "Entergy's failure to take timely and appropriate corrective action," the special inspection report stated.
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