Largest fine ever sought against nuke plant

[lovuian]

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Largest fine ever sought against nuke plant
Acid ate through most of shield, raising risk of meltdownMSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 3:45 p.m. ET April 21, 2005TOLEDO, Ohio - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission proposed a record $5.45 million fine Thursday against the operator of a nuclear plant where leaking acid ate nearly all the way through a 6-inch-thick steel cap on the reactor vessel.

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The NRC said FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co. restarted the Davis-Besse plant in 2000 without completing a cleaning and inspection of the reactor vessel head, then misled the agency about what it had done.

The leaking boric acid was found two years later during a routine inspection — the most extensive corrosion ever seen at a U.S. nuclear reactor.

Federal regulators estimated there were six chances in a 1,000 that the plant could have experienced a meltdown during the year before it was shut down for routine maintenance in February 2002. Normally, the risk of an accident at Davis-Besse is about six in 100,000.

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What a disaster waiting to happen who needs terrorists!!!

[madmom]

1. wow, I live less than 100 miles from Davis Bessie...

there goes our electric prices again,DAMN!:scared: :grr:

[prairierose]

2. That's exactly right....almost all

nuclear plants in this country were built from the same or very similar designs. They have many inherent flaws and were mostly built by Bechtel. I suspect that all of them are just accidents waiting to happen....

[mbperrin]

3. Aw, come on, that's 994 chances out of a thousand

that there won't be an accident, right? I mean, Toledo, why we just need all that good "green" nuke power, right?

That green is definitely going into some pockets....bet the fine is actually nothin' or close to it.

I hate nuclear power, anything whatsoever to do with it.

[vpigrad]

4. Why not just close it?`

It's dangerous! Nah, the repukes don't care about safety.

[Karenina]

5. Nuclear power sucks. n/t

[AndyTiedye]

6. Except When It BLOWS!

:scared::nuke::scared::nuke: