Ohio faces a decision soon about its two nuclear reactors, Davis-Besse and Perry, and on Wednesday, neighbors of one of those plants issued a cry for help. The reactors’ problem is that the price of electricity they sell on the high-voltage grid is depressed, mostly because of a surplus of natural gas. And the reactors do not get any revenue for the other benefits they provide. Some of those benefits are regional – emissions-free electricity, reliability with months of fuel on-site, and diversity in case of problems or price spikes with gas or coal, state and federal payroll taxes, and national economic stimulus as the plants buy fuel, supplies and services. Some of the benefits are highly localized, including employment and property taxes. One locality is already feeling the pinch: Oak Harbor on Lake Erie, home to Davis-Besse. The town has a middle school in a building that is 106 years old, and an elementary school from the 1950s, and on May 2 was scheduled to have a referendu
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OK...
How close did the Davis-Besse nuclear power station come to blowing its reactor vessel head on the shores of Lake Erie just twenty miles from Toledo, Ohio?
Dum-de-dum-dum, dum-de-dum,
Dum-de-dum-de-dum-deeee-dum-dum.
Times up.
As close as two months of continued ongoing corrosion which had already eaten a cavity 6 3/4 inches deep into the carbon steel base metal exposing the balloning and cracking stainless steel inner liner.
Yes... (Applause)
I'll try Davis-Besse again and jeopardize surpassing Price Anderson...
OK...What reactor containment component was found to be so undersized at Davis-Besse, as at other pressurized water reactors, that the debris field created by this screaming jet stream from ruptured pressure vessel would have clogged it and prevented the recycling of the emergency core cooling system?
Dum-de-dum-dum...
I got... the containment sump screen...
Yes!!!! (Applause)
Paul, NIRS
What fraction of the September 11th attack force does the NRC's security cost curtailing DBT cover under its adversary characteristics?
Answer: TIME Magazine June 20, 2005.
"I'll take Nuclear Power Plants for $1,000 Alex"
Alex:
"This anti-nuclear organization often distorts the truth of nuclear power with poor information and bad scare tactics."
Player 1, 2, and 3 all buzz in with Player 1 just beating the other two.
Player 1:
"What is the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS)?"
Alex:
"Correct for a thousand."
You are absolutely right about Davis Besse. For the industry it wasn't a great reflection on the benefits of nuclear power.
However, you need to recognize that Davis Besse isn't the only nuclear reactor in the U.S. and the world. There are 103 operating reactors in the U.S. and the only instances of which nuclear power posed a possible threat to the public were TMI and Davis Besse. And there isn't any evidence of the public being harmed in both cases. It should be noted that those reactors make up only 1% of the nuclear industry.
So to say that nuclear power is unsafe, unreliable and a threat to the public, you have to have more than TMI and Davis Besse which there aren't in the U.S.