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  1. Re:WTF is up with the summary? by New_Guy_Here · · Score: 1 · on Another Crumbling Reactor Springs a Tritium Leak

    how about the Ohio Davis-Besse reactor, had some really nice cover head erosion once upon a time! http://www.ohiocitizen.org/campaigns/electric/pre2003/serious_accident.htm

  2. Re:Volunteering... by sporktoast · · Score: 2, Interesting · on U.S. Plans to Tighten Nuclear Power Plant Security

    [...] a very poorly designed reactor, a shutdown of the insufficient safety systems, and a government that didn't care about its people. None of those conditions exists in US nuclear power plants.
    That's because US reactors are, of course, models of safe design and operation.

  3. Re:Volunteering... by sporktoast · · Score: 2, Interesting · on U.S. Plans to Tighten Nuclear Power Plant Security

    [...] a very poorly designed reactor, a shutdown of the insufficient safety systems, and a government that didn't care about its people. None of those conditions exists in US nuclear power plants.
    That's because US reactors are, of course, models of safe design and operation.

  4. Re:Erm... by sporktoast · · Score: 1 · on QNX 6.3 Released

    If you are Ohio's FirstEnergy, you run your hole-in-the-head Davis Besse nuke with Windows NT.

  5. Re:Didn't "crash" the plant by toby · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Worms Crash Ohio Nuke Plant, MD Trains
    Heard About the Near-Accident at the Ohio Nuclear Plant? I'm Not Surprised

    By Victor Gilinsky Sunday, April 28, 2002

    You wouldn't know it from the bland pronouncements of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), but the U.S. nuclear industry just had its closest brush with disaster since the 1979 Three Mile Island accident. The Davis-Besse nuclear power plant, located about 30 miles east of Toledo, Ohio, was operating with a rust hole in the top of its reactor pressure vessel -- a hole wide and deep enough to put your fist into. All that was left to contain the reactor's highly pressurized supply of cooling water around the reactor core was a three-eighths inch liner of stainless steel, and the liner had started to bulge ominously. If the liner had burst, it would have drained cooling water vital for safety and also threatened the reactor's emergency shutdown system.

    The plant operator's neglect is bad enough. If this had occurred in Russia, we would be saying it could never happen here. Equally disturbing is the NRC's barely audible response.

    . . . A workman discovered the rust hole by luck -- when he happened to bang into one of the control rod tubes coming out of the top of the reactor and it moved. If the reactor had gone back into operation, as it very nearly did, the consequences could have been enormous in terms of public safety as well as the future of the nuclear industry.

    Rest of article
  6. David-Besse Plant Problems by SparafucileMan · · Score: 3, Informative · on Microsoft Worms Crash Ohio Nuke Plant, MD Trains

    There have already been numerous security and maintenance problems with the David-Besse Nuclear Plant...the plant has come much closer to melting down before this stupid event. See http://www.ohiocitizen.org/campaigns/electric/nucf ront.html.

  7. Appalling, but not suprising. by DevilJeff · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Monsanto and PCBs

    Unfortunately, stuff like this happens all too often. Here in Ohio our EPA is so bad that they actually fired someone for reporting that a school was built on a Military waste dump. I work for a group that deals with these political and corporate problems everyday, and it's really eye-opening to see the disregard some people have for public health and the enviroment.