High radiation at Ohio nuclear plant prompts inspection

[Casper]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42771883/ns/us_news-life/

[crf69]

whoa

[imprez55]

Meh, doesn't seem like a big deal to me until they release some numbers. As of now it seems like they are trying to piggyback off of the Japan disaster for a big story. If they arn't, then I want mutated chickens with more wings. Mmm, wings are delicious

[Gump]

It always seems like they have more problems shutting these things down than when they are actually running.

[buildit]

It's not nuclear power that is unsafe, it's the cheap ass parts and subpar work that gets done to save money which is dangerous. Isn't FirstEnergy the same company that didn't clear power lines enough which resulted in a East Coast black out when the Huricane came through?

CLEVELAND — The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Tuesday it has started a special inspection at a nuclear reactor in northeast Ohio where high radiation levels were reported in a work area.

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Workers at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant immediately evacuated on April 22 when radiation levels rose while the plant was in the process of shutting down for a refueling outage.

The commission said the plant is safe and that officials do not believe workers were exposed to radiation levels "in excess of NRC limits."

The commission said radiation levels rose when workers were removing a monitor that measures nuclear reactions during start-up and shutdown.

It did not specify the level of radiation detected.

"The special inspection team began work on Monday and will review the circumstances surrounding the higher-than-expected radiation levels in the work area," the NRC said in a statement.

"The team will gather data to establish a sequence of events, review the utility’s work planning and engineering actions, determine if there were human performance factors that may have contributed to the event and evaluate the actual radiological consequences including exposure to the workers."

The nuclear reactor, owned by Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp., is about 35 miles northeast of Cleveland. A FirstEnergy spokesman did not immediately return a request for comment after business hours Tuesday.

In March 2010, a small fire broke out in a water pump's lubrication system at the plant. The fire burned for several hours, and two members of the plant's fire brigade were taken to a hospital for heat stress.

The plant experienced numerous safety problems several years ago, causing the NRC to monitor its safety operations every three months in 2005, when the plant was forced to shut down briefly because of problems with pumps that circulate coolant through the reactor's core.

[serpentracer]

the davis besse plant had cracks n shit in the head of the reactor...(just last year)

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2010/04/davis-besse.html

Edited April 27, 2011 by serpentracer

[magley64]

this is about a half hour from me...and some of my co-workers live literally across the street.

[Beegreenstrings]

this is about a half hour from me...and some of my co-workers live literally across the street.

Well I hope this is not what starts the zombie apocalypse.

[Das Borgen]

I've been making a killing on uranium commodities.....if this lowers prices on the exchange, i'll gladly buy low to keep selling higher

YMMV

[Bad324]

It sounds like they are trying to make a bigger deal out of this, all I know is there is some good fishing 10-12 miles due North on the lake from that power plant