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| Fermi 2 nuclear power plant in Michigan is shut down... |
| 2005-01-25 |
| Via Drudge, anyone see any odd glowing???? FLASH: 'We have a leak of reactor coolant into the containment structure... leak rate was about 75 gallons a minute but is reducing,' John Austerberry, spokesman... 'there is no indication of a radioactive release'... MORE... |
| Posted by:anonymous2u |
| #6 Sorry - that was the 60s, and here's some more data on the record of the plant: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sanders/214/other/news/fermi2.html Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2005-01-25 10:27:19 PM |
| #5 ...Fermi had a weird accident in the 70s not long after it opened that IIRC was similar to this and was badly overhyped in the book We Almost Lost Detroit - but the point of the book (that Detroit Edison badly botched the design and construction of the plant) was never seriously questioned. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2005-01-25 10:22:55 PM |
| #4 I used to be able to see the Fermi from my dad's house across the water in MI. Pretty cool place. |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2005-01-25 12:41:27 PM |
| #3 Infant mortality on the maintenance, then? |
| Posted by: Dishman 2005-01-25 11:56:21 AM |
| #2 ...and the swing shift hamsters got tiny cups replentished for their little coke machines. |
| Posted by: the squirrel 2005-01-25 4:37:19 AM |
| #1 On the 16th, the Fermi 2 facility completed a scheduled 27 day outage for maintenance and refuelling. Detroit Edison Quite a bit of work was done during that period: -Replacement of the computer that manages the visual annunciator system in the control room. -Replacement of 23 control-rod drive mechanisms, 13 control rod blades and eight local power range monitors. -Replacement of 15 main steam safety relief valves. -Replacement of the coolant water pump on one of the plant’s four emergency diesel generators. -Inspection and maintenance of the reactor core isolation cooling system turbine, which is performed every 10 years. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2005-01-25 2:41:55 AM |