Spent fuel accumulating at U.S.
nuclear reactor plants is also vulnerable, the report warns.
After the recent earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, the damage caused to
a nuclear reactor plant is causing concern for travelers to Japan.
Not exact matches
The Bellefonte
plant came with two partially built
nuclear reactors, one that's about 55 percent complete and another about 35 percent finished.
As cheap natural gas squeezes the margins of
nuclear generators, there's only one company currently building
reactors in the country — Southern Co., at its Vogtle
plant in Georgia.
«But I believe
nuclear power is a key technology with environmental considerations; there's no carbon dioxide emissions and [a
nuclear reactor's
plant] might last for 60 to 100 years.»
CB&I received no upfront payment for the sale of the
nuclear construction business, but stood to receive earnouts based on the progress of the completion of two U.S. projects by Stone & Webster: a
nuclear power
plant in Georgia for Southern Co and two
reactors in South Carolina for SCANA Corp (scu).
A number of coal - and oil - fired power
plants will likely be retired, and while Virginia's four existing
nuclear units will remain in use, plans for a fifth
reactor remain shelved, for now.
The
Nuclear Regulatory Commission licenses
reactor equipment, and the Commerce Department reviews exports for equipment throughout the rest of the power
plant.
To use MOX fuel rods, civilian power
plants would have to modify their
reactors, requiring lengthy relicensing by the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
After the leak of heavy water at the Wolsong
nuclear power
plant, South Korea is reconsidering its plan to import an additional Candu - 9 model pressurized heavy - water
nuclear reactor from Canada.
The state - run
nuclear power
plant operator was preparing for further cyber-attacks after its data was leaked on a blog and to a Twitter account under the profile «president of anti-
nuclear reactor group.»
TOKYO (AP)-- About 1,400 people filed a joint lawsuit Thursday against three companies that manufactured
reactors at Japan's Fukushima Dai - ichi
nuclear plant, saying they should be financially liable for damage caused by their 2011 meltdowns.
These include adequate uranium supply (probably necessitating immense uranium strip mines in Tennessee), almost inconceivable
reactor and waste - transport accidents, low - level radiation effects from normal
plant operations, and the burden of guarding both radioactive waste and outdated but radioactive
nuclear plants for thousands of years.
But Mr. Cuomo has taken an opposite stance on Entergy's Indian Point
nuclear plant in Westchester County, which has two
reactors.
One of the
reactors at the Indian Point
nuclear power
plant in New York was shut down Monday for the start of a $ 100 million refueling and maintenance outage.
SCRIBA, N.Y. - Entergy Corp. plans to shut down its money - losing FitzPatrick
nuclear power
plant in Oswego County after the
reactor runs out of fuel next year.
While it's true that, unlike other types of power
plants,
nuclear reactors do not emit carbon dioxide (C02), the life cycle of generating
nuclear power — from mining to refining to transportation to storage — requires an enormous amount of energy.
Officials said the decision to change the
plant's
nuclear safety level was due to cumulative radiation releases since the earthquake wreaked serious damage to the
reactors, rather than a sudden deterioration in conditions.
The owner of Nine Mile Point
Nuclear Plant is again sounding a warning that without some financial help from New York state, it could have to close one of its
reactors.
However, at least two of the state's
nuclear reactors are in danger of closing within the next few years and would significantly increase air pollution because they would be replaced by fossil - fuel burning power
plants in the near future.
BUCHANAN, N.Y. — Officials say one of the Indian Point
nuclear power
plant's
reactors in suburban New York has been shut down because several control rods lost power.
The Indian Point 2
nuclear reactor will reopen late next month in time for the summer's peak energy season after a longer - than - expected shutdown because of deteriorating bolts critical to the
plant's safety.
I brought up the MSNBC report that deemed one of the three
reactors at the Hudson River
nuclear power
plant 24 miles from NYC (or 34 miles from Midtown, depending on how you're measuring), the most at risk in the nation of earthquake damage.
A
reactor that was shut down during a transformer fire two weeks ago at the Indian Point
nuclear power
plant in Westchester County has returned to service.
The owner of the Nine Mile 1
nuclear reactor told state officials the
plant is likely to close if new «clean energy» subsidies are not in place by September.
«The Indian Point
nuclear power
plant, which sits within two miles of two intersecting fault lines has the highest risk of an earthquake causing its
reactors core damage in the United States,» Carlucci said in a statement.
BUCHANAN, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- One of the
reactors at the Indian Point
nuclear power
plant has been shut down for refueling.
Yukiya Amano, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has described the struggle to avoid meltdown at the
nuclear plant's six
reactors as a «race against the clock».
Federal regulators say the owner of the Indian Point
nuclear power
plant in Westchester County failed to amend a
reactor operator's license when the man developed sleep apnea.
SCRIBA, N.Y. - If Entergy shuts down the FitzPatrick
nuclear power
plant as planned, the
reactor could sit dormant for 50 years before its owner begins to tear it down and clean up the site.
Officials at the FitzPatrick
Nuclear Power
Plant near Oswego are investigating why fuel rods in the reactor's core are leaking radiation and while not considered an emergency, it could potentially spread contaminated water to other parts of the p
Plant near Oswego are investigating why fuel rods in the
reactor's core are leaking radiation and while not considered an emergency, it could potentially spread contaminated water to other parts of the
plantplant.
In exchange, Exelon — the company that now owns all of the
plants — agreed to drop closure threats to two of the
nuclear reactors and keep them running for another 12 years.
Testing wells have revealed a not especially dangerous but still unsettling tritium spill into the groundwater beneath Indian Point, the three -
reactor nuclear - power
plant 35 miles north of New York City.
Each day, some two billion gallons of water are pumped from Long Island Sound into the Millstone Power Station in Waterford, Conn. — that state's only
nuclear power
plant — and used to help cool systems and support the station's two operating
reactors.
SCRIBA, N.Y. - As recently as four years ago,
nuclear power companies were planning to spend billions of dollars to build a new
reactor in Oswego County, alongside three existing
nuclear plants.
BUCHANAN >> A
reactor that was shut down during a transformer fire two weeks ago at the Indian Point
nuclear power
plant in Westchester County has returned to service.
According to a study by The Brattle Group, funded by Exelon and other
nuclear supporters, the three
reactors in Oswego County and another in Wayne County eliminate nearly 16 million tons of carbon dioxide a year that would otherwise be emitted by fossil fuel power
plants.
In exchange Exelon, the company that now owns all of the
plants, agreed to drop threats to two of the
nuclear reactors and to keep them running for another 12 years.
Cuomo's new policy aims to improve the financial outlook for
nuclear plants, or at least the Upstate
reactors.
After the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island — a
nuclear power
plant in Pennsylvania — stricter regulations driven by public fear prompted TVA to shut down its two
nuclear reactors.
After two
nuclear reactors in Tennessee were temporarily shut down in the 1980s, coal - fired power
plants picked up various amounts of the slack.
It is now clear that at least one
reactor at Fukushima experienced a full core meltdown, so what does that mean for similar
nuclear power
plants in the U.S.?
Science has created a map that provides a snapshot of the number of
nuclear reactors in operation and under construction worldwide, locations of power
plants in relation to seismic hazard zones, and reactions to events in Japan in some countries.
Of all the terrible news from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power
plant, reports about the spent fuel storage pool for
reactor # 4 may be among the most disconcerting for scientists.
Research suggests the risks posed to the nation's
nuclear reactors may have been underestimated and therefore could be worse than the power
plants were designed to withstand
Nuclear power
plant operators would purchase and store portable equipment that could be used to provide additional means of cooling the
reactor, a plan that could be in place as soon as 2015.
In 2006, 20 years after
reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl
nuclear power
plant was encased in cement, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency released a report compiled by a panel of 100 scientists on the long - term health effects of the level 7
nuclear disaster and future risks for those exposed.
And there is some somewhat alarming language that talks about, and I'll just quote «the IAEA tells us the earthquake triggered a power failure at the Fukushima Daiichi unit 2
nuclear power
plant, and then when a backup generator also failed, the cooling system was unable to supply water to cool the
reactor.
The meltdown started when water to cool the
reactors fell to dangerously low levels four hours after the fourth - largest recorded earthquake rattled the Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power
plant.
But the computer modeling only analyzed catastrophic failure at one
reactor at each of these
nuclear power
plants, despite the fact that Peach Bottom and Surry each have two
reactors on site.