Xcel's Prairie Island Nuclear Plant Goes On Alert | AHN | August 5, 2008
Xcel Energy issued an elevated alert level Sunday after traces of hydrazine were discovered in the turbine building at its Prairie Island Nuclear Plant in Red Wing, Minnesota. Hydrazine, an ammonia-like chemical used to avoid corrosion and rusting in pipes, was reported higher than normal levels.
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Y-12 fire results in evacuation of 95 employees - Oak Ridge, TN - The Oak Ridger
A Monday morning fire at the Y-12 National Security Complex resulted in the evacuation of 95 employees, including two who were taken to Y-12 Occupational Health Services and released. "Emergency response personnel at the Y-12 National Security Complex are responding to a fire at the Oak Ridge facility," stated a 10:24 a.m. e-mail from the Y-12 Site Office.
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The Associated Press: Japan warned of possible nuclear leak from US sub
The U.S. Navy has warned that a nuclear submarine may have had radioactive leaks during recent port calls in Japan's south, the country's Foreign Ministry said Saturday. Japan's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it was informed by the U.S. Navy that a small amount of radiation might have leaked from the nuclear-powered USS Houston as it traveled around the Pacific.
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Crane accident triggers German atomic reactor shutdown - Irna
A remote-controlled crane struck an electric power cable outside a nuclear power plant in the southern city of Biblis, leading to the shutdown of one of two reactors, the press reported Wednesday. The operator of the Biblis nuclear power plant said the turbine linked to reactor B was automatically turned off after the crane clipped a high-voltage cable during construction work at a water treatment plant.
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Operational emergency terminated at ORNL : Local News : Knoxville News Sentinel
About 30 employees were evacuated this morning because of elevated radiation readings inside the Holifield facility.
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NRC launches Yankee probe: Rutland Herald Online
The highest-level staff official at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, aside from the presidentially appointed commission members themselves, arrived in Vermont Monday to head up a special investigation into why serious problems continually plague Vermont Yankee nuclear plant's cooling towers. William Borchardt, executive director of the NRC, held a meeting with NRC staff in Vermont late Monday afternoon, and will hold a briefing for state officials and representatives of the state's congressional delegation today.
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Tower problems plague Yankee: Rutland Herald Online
Problems with broken wooden timbers continue to plague Vermont Yankee's cooling towers, as Entergy Nuclear was forced Friday to cut power production in half. According to a preliminary report from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, engineers found timber support problems first in the east cooling tower and then in the west tower, including the same cell that was rebuilt last summer after it collapsed.
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VY leak forces power cutback - Brattleboro Reformer
A leak in one of Vermont Yankee's cooling towers has state officials and legislators concerned that the owner of the nuclear power plant in Vernon is not doing all that it promised to insure the plant operates safely. Both cooling towers at Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon were pulled out of service Friday morning after technicians discovered sagging and leakage in a pipe that moves thousands of gallons of water through the plant's cooling system. Because of the loss of the cooling towers, power output at the plant was reduced to less than 50 percent.
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Bad Training Caused Mishandling Of Plutonium Spill - Denver News Story - KMGH Denver
An internal investigation found that sloppy safety procedures and poor training and response contributed to the mishandling of a plutonium spill at the federal National Institute of Standards and Technology lab last month.
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Areva mishandled uranium leak: safety body | Reuters
France's nuclear safety authority (ASN) said on Friday that Areva-subsidiary Socatri had poorly managed a leak of liquid containing uranium that occurred in southeastern France this week.
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Whitehaven News: Nine farms STILL face post-Chernobyl tests
NINE Cumbrian farms remain under post-Chernobyl restrictions more than two decades after radiation from the nuclear power plant contaminated the county.
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Germany: Supervisors doubt quick Vattenfall reactor restart | Transportation | Reuters
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The Associated Press: Uranium spill at Japan plant, no injury
A small amount of uranium powder escaped from a machine at a Japanese nuclear fuel plant near Tokyo, slightly exposing a worker to radiation, the plant operator said Thursday. There was no health threat to the worker and the spill from Wednesday's incident was contained inside the plant in Yokosuka, about 30 miles southwest of Tokyo, according to Global Nuclear Fuel-Japan Co.
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BBC NEWS | Europe | Warning over French uranium leak
Waste containing unenriched uranium has leaked into two rivers from a nuclear plant in southern France. Officials banned people in three nearby towns from fishing, using water from wells, swimming in the rivers or using river water on their crops.
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Y-12 chief gives details of 2007 fire : Knoxville News Sentinel
OAK RIDGE - The small uranium fire extinguished itself within a matter of seconds March 15, 2007. But there were signs of broader concern when a radiation alarm went off in another area of the large building where warhead parts are assembled and taken apart.
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Tainted H20 in sewer probed - The Denver Post
Trace amounts of plutonium were potentially washed into Boulder's wastewater system from two locations at the National Institute of Standards and Technology after a June 9 plutonium leak, federal and Boulder city officials said Wednesday.
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knoxnews.com | 50th anniversary of Y-12's worst nuke accident
On June 16, 1958, eight workers were hospitalized after they were exposed to high radiation fields in a production facility at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant. A batch of highly enriched uranium went critical when it was inadvertently mixed in an unsafe container, zapping everyone in the vicinity with neutrons.
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Y-12 contractor fined for uranium chip fire : Knoxville News Sentinel
OAK RIDGE - The government has levied a $123,750 fine against B&W Technical Services, the contractor at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant, for safety violations related to a uranium chip fire in 2007.
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RIA Novosti - Russia - Russian nuclear agency rejects rumors of radiation leaks
MOSCOW, June 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russian nuclear power agency Rosatom dismissed on Monday rumors circulating of a radioactive leak from two plants in northwest and south Russia. Bogus e-mail messages on June 15 said that there had been alleged radioactive leaks at the Leningrad nuclear power station, in northwest Russia, and the Volgodonsk nuclear power plant, in the south of the country, a spokesman for the company said.
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More detail on $123,750 fine against Y-12 contractor for radiation exposure : Local News : Knoxville News Sentinel
The government has issued a $123,750 fine against B&W Technical Services, the contractor at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant, for safety violations related to a uranium chip fire in 2007. More than 100 workers received radiation doses due to inhalation of airborne radioactive material created by the fire, according to the report released today.
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