Sentences with phrase «reactor operator at»

Then I met Heather Matteson, an environmentalist, mother and reactor operator at Diablo Canyon, and Kristin Zaitz, whom you can see here inspecting the dome, which is in pristine condition.

Not exact matches

Owners of at least two dozen nuclear reactors across the United States, including the operator of Indian Point 2, have told the NRC that they can not show that their reactors would withstand the most severe earthquake that revised estimates say they might face.

With nuclear safety in the spotlight since the 2011 reactor meltdown at Japan's Fukushima plant - which in turn prompted Germany to call time on its entire nuclear fleet - operators can take no chances with their elderly plants, but the outages get longer and more difficult.

How a handful of operators at a crippled reactor averted a greater catastrophe at the Fukushima plant.

The problem of spent fuel storage Nuclear reactor operators must store spent fuel removed from reactor cores for several years at least, in large pools at reactor sites until the remaining heat from the uranium fuel cools sufficiently.

But it took until 2001 for the NRC to require operators of reactors prone to the potential problem to check for it, a process that had not been completed at Davis - Besse.

Then the task force followed with a dozen major recommendations, some of which would order nuclear plant operators to strengthen defenses against extreme flooding or earthquakes when necessary and to harden vents that would carry away explosive hydrogen gas from damaged reactor cores in the two types of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.