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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 ...
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 ...
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.
As 2021 comes to a close, the News Herald is reviewing the Top 10 stories of the year, including violations at Davis-Besse and the COVID-19 vaccines.
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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 ...