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Safety hazards at more than 24 USA nuclear reactors

Report: Monticello nuclear plant among those with potential safety hazard, – TwinCities.com 02/17/2011 A major manufacturer in the nuclear industry is reporting a potential “substantial safety hazard” with control rods at more than two dozen nuclear reactors around the country, including the Xcel Energy plant near Monticello…..GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy told federal regulators that has discovered extensive cracking and “material distortion,” and likely would recommend that the boiling water reactors using its Marathon control rod blades replace them more frequently than they had been told to previously.

Both David Lochbaum of the Union of Concerned Scientists and Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry engineer who now frequently consults with groups critical of the industry, said the faulty blades could make affected control rods inoperable……

Report: Monticello nuclear plant among those with potential safety hazard – TwinCities.com

February 18, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety, USA