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Safety worries continue at Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant

“It’s unsettling to live just a few miles from the plant,” ….. Regulators also found flaws in the utility’s analysis of how the plant would withstand different accident conditions such as earthquakes, tornadoes or loss of coolant.

Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant Unlikely To Restart Before Fall (includes video) HUFFINGTON POST 04/ 4/2012 BLAIR, Neb. (AP) — Federal regulators said Wednesday it’s unlikely the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant will restart before fall because of the extensive inspections and repairs needed. Continue reading →

April 6, 2012 Posted by | safety, USA | Leave a comment

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission perturbed about troubled San Onofre nuclear station

US nuclear agency head to visit troubled Calif reactors  HOUSTON, Apr 5, 2012   (Reuters) – The chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and several California lawmakers are scheduled to tour the troubled San Onofre nuclear station in the state on Friday, the agency said.

NRC Chair Gregory Jaczko will visit Southern California Edison’s 2,150-megawatt San Onofre nuclear station near San Diego, where both reactors have been shut since January due to the discovery of premature wear on tubes inside giant steam generators. Continue reading →

April 6, 2012 Posted by | business and costs, USA | Leave a comment

Delays, cost overruns at TVA’s Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

TVA’s nuclear reactor in the works will cost more and take longer to finish than estimated  THE TENNESSEAN, 5 April 12, Construction of a second reactor at TVA’s Watts Bar Nuclear Plant will cost an additional $1.5 billion to $2 billion to complete and won’t befinished until 2015, officials disclosed today……. Continue reading →

April 6, 2012 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

France’s nuclear plant leaks after 2 small fires

Leak Found in French Nuclear Plant http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304072004577326322716346232.html?mod=googlenews_wsj By NADYA MASIDLOVER WSJ, 6 April 12, PARIS—French state-controlled utility Electricité de France SA said late Thursday that a leak was detected at one of its nuclear reactors in northwestern France, after two small fires were extinguished at the site earlier in the day.

France’s nuclear regulator said it had provisionally ranked the leak as a low-level incident and had returned to normal management of the situation after shifting to crisis mode earlier in the day. In a statement, EDF said that a faulty joint on a pump used to cool the reactor had caused a leak inside the reactor building of its nuclear power station in Penly, Normandy. The water from the leak is currently collected in circuits which exist for this use, the company said.

The reactor, which automatically halted after the fire, continues to be cooled normally and the plant teams are working to reduce the pressure and the temperature of the water in the circuit, according to EDF.

Even after a reactor is halted, the nuclear fuel continues to generate heat and must be cooled continuously.

French nuclear safety body, Autorité de Sureté Nucléaire, said it continues to analyze the situation and follow its evolution. The regulator said the incidents had no consequence on the environment.

Earlier in the evening, a spokeswoman for EDF said that lubricant from one of the reactor’s cooling pumps had leaked on the floor, generating smoke and small flames inside the reactor building. The two small fires were extinguished Thursday afternoon.

April 6, 2012 Posted by | France, incidents | Leave a comment

Electromagnetic radiation guns – Russia’s latest fiendish invention

Russia working on electromagnetic radiation guns, Herald Sun   April 04, 2012 Guns will use electromagnetic radiation Rays will attack victims’ central nervous system WHILE many believed it to be an April Fool’s Day joke, Vladimir Putin has confirmed Russia has been testing mind-bending psychotronic guns that can effectively turn people into zombies.

The futuristic weapons – which attack their victims’ central nervous system – are being developed by scientists and could be used against Russia’s enemies and even its own dissidents by the end of the decade. Continue reading →

April 6, 2012 Posted by | Russia, weapons and war | Leave a comment

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