Sep 29, 2024: The case against restarting Three Mile Island’s Unit-1

From Enformable Nuclear News:

After the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the health effects of ionized radiation have become a hot topic around the globe.  A new study showing that survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings have continued to show a higher-than-normal risk of thyroid cancer, over half a century after their initial exposures.

The researchers calculated that 36 percent of the 191 thyroid cancers that eventually developed in people who were kids or teens at the time of the attacks were likely due to radiation exposure.

“Thyroid cancer is one of the most radiosensitive cancers,” said Dr. Kiyohiko Mabuchi of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, who worked on the new study.

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1) Distribution:

On February 28, 2012, PPL filed a Notice of Intent with the PUC to increase  “distribution rates and will allow the Company to begin to recover the costs incurred since 2010 for the improvement and expansion of its distribution system. The request also will reflect increases in operation and maintenance costs since 2010, including costs associated with major storm events, programs to enhance retail electric competition and customer education.”

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THREE MILE ISLAND NUCLEAR STATION, UNIT 1 - REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING SECURITY PLAN REVIEW

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LONDONDERRY TOWNSHIP, PA (Aug. 22, 2012) – Operators at Three Mile Island Generating Station took the unit offline today to make repairs to a heater element on the plant’s pressurizer tank.  The repairs can only be done with the unit offline.  TMI will return to service after the repairs, inspections and testing on the heater element are complete. 

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BORAFLEX DEGRADATION SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMS AND CORRECTIVE ACTIONS IN THE SPENT FUEL POOL

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Susquehanna Steam Electric Station – NRC Integrated Inspection Report 05000387/2012003 and 05000388/2012003.

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From Bellona:

The reactor vessel is one of the most important safety elements, both holding hot water under pressure and preventing the escape of radionuclides into the environment. Theoretically, should Dael No 3’s vessel be damaged, a cement barrier surrounding it would prevent further spread of radionuclides. (Lampert emphasis)

Possible problems with the vessel were first suspected by FANC in June, it said on its website statement. The agency has also promised to publicize a dossier of its data confirming that the cracks “do not threaten the structural integrity of the reactor vessel,” suggesting that the regulator is attempting to justify the reactor’s further use.

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SUSQUEHANNA STEAM ELECTRIC STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2 ­ WITHDRAWAL OF RELIEF REQUEST NO. 3RR-19 (TAC NOS. ME8521 AND ME8522).

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