Plant manager Cletus sitting with his brother and chief nuclear engineer Cletus Jr.
Utility officials restarted a long-dormant nuclear reactor Tuesday, 22 years after it was shut down because of safety concerns at what was once the nation’s largest nuclear power plant.
The restart capped a five-year, $1.8 billion renovation at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant.
Plant spokesman Craig Beasley said there were no reports of problems. Extensive testing remained to be done before electricity from the Unit 1 reactor would begin flowing on transmission lines. The plant’s other two reactors remained at full power.
The entire three-reactor plant was idled in 1985 amid mounting worries over plant safety and management. The Unit 2 and 3 reactors were restarted in the 1990s after extensive renovations and upgrades.
A watchdog group pointed to the plant’s history of problems and questioned whether the reactor should be operating at all.
The South will rise again, in radioactive flames!
18. You see, what happened to James, uh, er, I mean Utah was all that fallout from nuke testing in Nevada, its downwind ya know. Did ya ever see “The Hills have Eyes”.
#18 – I didn’t know you lived in Mississippi. As for Utah…
#21 – …”The Hills Have Eyes” isn’t a very popular movie here, as the “downwinders” are a real group of people that have a very high cancer rate… all thanks to the Government.
22. Oh sure blame it on the evil government, probably Bush.
Well, it may be in Bama, but the oversite is still from DC. That’s the scary part.
We can’t live on oil forever. It will run out. Energy consumption has risen almost as fast as new discoveries of fossil fuels and will shortly outpace the discovery of new supplies. Solar, wind, and the sun are only part of the solution. No one magic technology can possibly produce all of our electric needs, accept maybe Hot Fusion. And that appears to be generations in the future.
Like it or not, this is not the last new/refurbed Nuke plant to go online in this country. If this works out, more old plants will be rebuilt instead of mothballed when they reach the end of their planned service life.
Don
25. Then you can ship all the waste out to Nevada or Utah, Oh Goody!
#18
There’s enough purebreeding there you won’t need a nuclear reactor to cause significant genetic damage.
Think it can always turn into Chernobyl.
Woo-hoo, stalkers are coming!
#22, James,
Nope. Indiana, a step up.
Last week we were in the news about being #6 in the nation for something good. I can’t remember what. It might have been cases of Alzheimer.