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The most severe occurring in March 2002, when maintenance workers discovered corrosion had eaten a football-sized hole into the reactor vessel head. [4] [5] The NRC kept Davis–Besse shut down until March 2004, so that FirstEnergy was able to perform all the necessary maintenance for safe operations. The NRC imposed an over $5 million fine ...
Severe boric acid corrosion of reactor head forces 24-month outage of Davis-Besse reactor: 0: 605 [25] 3 January 15, 2003: Bridgman, Michigan, USA: A fault in the main transformer at the Donald C. Cook Nuclear Generating Station causes a fire that damages the main generator and back-up turbines: 0: 10: June 16, 2005: Braidwood, Illinois, USA
This image of the core from the SL-1 disaster, Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA, served as a reminder of the necessity for proper reactor practice and safeguards. The 18,000 km 2 expanse of the Semipalatinsk Test Site (indicated in red), in present-day Kazakhstan, covers an area the size of Wales. [2] These are lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive ...
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 ...
Severe corrosion of reactor vessel head forced 24-month outage of Davis-Besse reactor. 0: 143: 3 April 10, 2003: Paks, Hungary: Collapse of fuel rods at Paks Nuclear Power Plant unit 2 during its corrosion cleaning led to leakage of radioactive gases. It remained inactive for 18 months. 0: 3 August 9, 2004: Fukui Prefecture, Japan
Severe corrosion of control rod drives in the reactor head forces 24-month outage of Davis-Besse reactor: 0: 143: January 15, 2003: Bridgman, Michigan, USA: A fault in the main transformer at the Donald C. Cook nuclear power plant causes a fire that damages the main generator and back-up turbines: 0: 10: June 16, 2005: Braidwood, Illinois, USA
BCS schools, Carroll Township, Oak Harbor Public Library to lose $1.8 million in tax funding due to drop in Davis-Besse utility value.
Neutron irradiation embrittlement limits the service life of reactor-pressure vessels (RPV) in nuclear power plants due to the degradation of reactor materials. In order to perform at high efficiency and safely contain coolant water at temperatures around 290°C and pressures of ~7 MPa (for boiling water reactors) to 14 MPa (for pressurized water reactors), the RPV must be heavy-section steel.