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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
Besséʼ head, cracked and fragmented, surrounded by two cobbles. Besséʼ (pronounced IPA: [bəˈs:ɛʔ]) [1] is the prehistoric fossil of a young woman over 7,200 years old found in the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
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.
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 holding back the high-pressure reactor coolant. Paks Nuclear Power Plant (Hungary), 2003; fuel rod damage in a cleaning tank.
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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.
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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