Nuclear plant's 'outage season' brings business to Brunswick (The Wilmington Star-News)
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:52:44 GMT
By Wayne Faulkner Wayne.Faulkner@StarNewsOnline.com It's “outage” season in Southport, when hundreds of workers from across the country descend on Progress Energy's Brunswick Nuclear Plant.
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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 13:23:17 GMT
By TOM HENRY BLADE STAFF WRITER OAK HARBOR, Ohio - Deja 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 ...
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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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Is Nuclear Energy Safe? (Discovery Channel)
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:33:11 GMT
With a financial push from the Obama administration (and even Bill Gates), nuclear energy is out in front as an alternative to generating electricity with fossil fuels. Nuclear power plants – and there are 104 operating in the United States ...
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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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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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Short-term Davis-Besse halt viewed as not costly (The Toledo Blade)
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:35:11 GMT
By JON CHAVEZ BLADE BUSINESS WRITER If the repairs under way at FirstEnergy Corp.'s Davis-Besse nuclear power plant near Oak Harbor are completed before summer, it shouldn't affect the utility's bottom line. But if the situation drags on - as did a 2002 situation in which its reactor head had to be replaced - it could start cutting into FirstEnergy's ability to make money, experts contend ...
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Davis-Besse inspected further (The Toledo Blade)
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:31:07 GMT
By TOM HENRY BLADE STAFF WRITER OAK HARBOR, Ohio - No additional damage was found yesterday at FirstEnergy Corp.'s Davis-Besse nuclear plant. As of late afternoon, the number of control-rod drive mechanism nozzles with suspicious flaws remained at 13, Todd Schneider, utility spokesman, said. Four have cracks, at least two of which were believed to have been leaking. The nozzles in question are ...
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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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