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Davis–Besse Nuclear Power Station is an 894 megawatt nuclear power plant, located northeast of Oak Harbor, Ohio, United States. It has a single pressurized water reactor. Davis–Besse is operated by Vistra Corp. Throughout its operation, Davis–Besse has been the site of several safety incidents that affected
Vandellòs I nuclear incident in Vandellòs (Spain), 1989; fire destroyed many control systems; the reactor was shut down. Davis–Besse Nuclear Power Station (United States), 2002; negligent inspections resulted in corrosion through 6 in (150 mm) of the carbon steel reactor head leaving only 3⁄8-inch (9.5 mm) of stainless steel cladding ...
Erosion of the 150-millimetre-thick (5.9 in) carbon steel reactor head at Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant, in Oak Harbor, Ohio, USA, in 2002, caused by a persistent leak of borated water The Hanford Site, in Benton County, Washington, USA, represents two-thirds of America's high-level radioactive waste by volume.
In the U.S., at least 56 nuclear reactor accidents have occurred. [2] The most serious of these U.S. accidents was the Three Mile Island accident in 1979. According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Davis–Besse Nuclear Power Station has been the source of two of the top five most dangerous nuclear incidents in the United States since ...
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The world's first nuclear reactor meltdown was the NRX reactor at Chalk River Laboratories, Ontario, Canada in 1952. [22] The worst nuclear accident to date is the Chernobyl disaster which occurred in 1986 in the Ukrainian SSR, now Ukraine. The accident killed approximately 30 people directly [23] and damaged approximately $7 billion of property.
The SL-1, or Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One, was a United States Army experimental nuclear power reactor which underwent a steam explosion and meltdown on January 3, 1961, killing its three operators. The direct cause was the improper withdrawal of the central control rod, responsible for absorbing neutrons in the reactor core. The ...
Davis-Besse public utility value drops from $68 million to $14 million. This upcoming tax year, the public utility value of Davis-Besse has dropped from over $68 million to just above $14 million ...