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Davis–Besse Nuclear Power Station's cooling tower in July 2015. Davis–Besse Nuclear Power Station is an 894 megawatt nuclear power plant, located northeast of Oak Harbor, Ohio in Ottawa County, Ohio. It has a single pressurized water reactor. Davis–Besse is operated by Vistra Corporation.
The initial causal sequence of events at TMI had been duplicated 18 months earlier at another Babcock & Wilcox reactor, the Davis–Besse Nuclear Power Station. The only differences were that the operators at Davis–Besse identified the valve failure after 20 minutes, where at TMI it took 80 minutes, and the fact that the Davis–Besse ...
Over time the plant capacity was further up-rated to 1,633 Megawatts and 1.5 million pounds per hour steam. In July 2002, an unused nuclear reactor vessel head from Unit 2 was removed from its containment building for transportation to Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station near Oak Harbor, Ohio, where it replaced a damaged vessel head on a reactor. [9]
Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, operated by Energy Harbor, recently announced it raised more than $104,000 during its 2022 United Way Annual Campaign that will directly support Ottawa County ...
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The reactor was brought back to full power by February 20, 2016. [11] In addition to Perry, Vistra Corp also owns and operates the Davis-Besse and Beaver Valley nuclear plants. [12] In July 2023, Energy Harbor applied for a license renewal for the Perry nuclear power plant, requesting an additional 20 years of operation. [13]
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Erosion of the 6-inch-thick (150 mm) carbon steel reactor head, caused by a persistent leak of borated water, at the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant. The United States Government Accountability Office reported more than 150 incidents from 2001 to 2006 of nuclear plants not performing within acceptable safety guidelines.