Planned Refueling Outage at Davis-Besse Plant to Include Repairs to Reactor Head Nozzles (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:49:00 GMT
A planned refueling outage underway at the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio, will include repair work on several control rod nozzles that penetrate the reactor head vessel. Â Sophisticated ultrasonic inspections conducted over the past several days on 49 of the 69 nozzles detected indications in 12 of them. Â Further inspections will take place throughout the week.
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Davis-Besse could face long outage (The Toledo Blade)
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:55:52 GMT
By TOM HENRY BLADE STAFF WRITER OAK HARBOR, Ohio - Dj vu for Davis-Besse? After six years of rock-solid performance, the Ottawa County nuclear plant faces the prospect of staying offline for another extended period because multiple control-rod drive mechanism nozzles that jut out of its reactor head - one of the plant's largest and most important parts - again are aging faster than expected. As ...
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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-03-15 15:23 UPDATE 1-FirstEnergy to work on Davis-Besse reactor vessel head (Interactive Investor)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:44:20 GMT
NEW YORK, March 15 (Reuters) - FirstEnergy Corp said Monday it would repair reactor vessel head nozzles at the 879-megawatt Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in Ohio during the refueling outage. In a release, FirstEnergy said it would repair several of the control rod nozzles that penetrate the reactor head vessel. Davis-Besse was shut from 2002 until early 2004 to fix a hole caused by boric acid ...
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Davis-Besse could face long outage (The Toledo Blade)
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:40:23 GMT
By TOM HENRY BLADE STAFF WRITER
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VY reveals outage dates (Brattleboro Reformer)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:59:08 GMT
BRATTLEBORO -- The dates of an upcoming refueling outage at Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon are supposed to be kept confidential due to the impact the outage can have on the New England power market.
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Davis-Besse having problems with current reactor head (The Toledo Blade)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:25:35 GMT
By TOM HENRY BLADE STAFF WRITER OAK HARBOR, Ohio - Only six years after putting Davis-Besse back in service, FirstEnergy Corp. is having problems with the reactor head it brought down from a mothballed nuclear plant in Midland, Mich., to replace the damaged lid that had led to a worldwide probe of nuclear operations, including reforms nationally. The replacement device, which had sat idle in ...
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Cordovans welcome energized economy from 2,100 workers (WQAD Moline)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:10:27 GMT
Tonight there are a lot more workers coming and going from Excelon's nuclear power plant in Cordova and people in town are rolling out the welcome mat.
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FirstEnergy Corp. must address more Davis-Besse repairs than anticipated (Crain's Cleveland Business)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:21:52 GMT
The electric company will be performing repair work on several control rod nozzles that penetrate the reactor head vessel at the nuclear plant, which was closed for two years last decade because of a badly corroded containment cap.
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Q&A: Xcel has an eye on future here (Monticello Times)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:21:45 GMT
When President Barack Obama and the United States Congress actually agree on something, it’s pretty big news. When that agreement falls on the topic of nuclear energy, it’s pretty big local news.
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Robot explorer stuck in pipe at Vt. nuke plant (Boston Globe)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:32:21 GMT
A small robot looking for the source of a radioactive leak at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant is stuck in the mud.
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