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Radioactive leak found in reactor at S. Carolina nuclear plant, one of largest in US

Tuesday, November 12, 2013 1:47
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south-carolina-nuclear-radioactive-leak_siA reactor at one of the nation’s largest nuclear power plants has been taken offline due to a radioactive leak within a containment building.

“Out of an abundance of caution,” service was temporarily  removed from Unit 1 at the Oconee Nuclear Station in western  South Carolina early Monday, according to ONS spokeswoman B.J.  Gatten.  

A robot was used to confirm the leak over the weekend after it  was first suspected Friday night inside Unit 1’s containment  facility, Gatten said.

Less than one tenth of a gallon of radioactive material is  leaking per minute, though it is not yet known how long the leak  has existed, she said, according to WYFF.

The leak remains solely inside the containment building, a  steel-lined, airtight area with concrete walls several feet  thick. No one works inside the containment building, Gatten said.

The leak is subject to ongoing repairs and analysis, though there  is no estimate for when it will go back online.

Gatten claims the leak will not put any employees or the public  in danger, nor will it affect service.

The leak has been reported to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,  she said. A Commission report said Unit 1 was running at full  power Friday.

Unit 2 at ONS was offline already for routine refueling, leaving  one reactor – Unit 3 – online Monday.

ONS is run by Duke Energy, and began operation in 1973 with an  initial expiration date in 2013, per 40-year regulatory  standards. However, its license was extended for an additional 20  years – only the second reactor to earn such a renewal – and is  now scheduled to expire in 2033.

The power plant is located on Lake Keowee near Seneca, South  Carolina. Its energy output is over 2,500 megawatts – enough  electricity to power 1.9 million homes, according to Duke Energy.

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  • The engineering standards of days past were much more reliable than today’s. When they said a forty year life, they meant it. For the NRC to extend that by 50% by the stroke of a pen is highly irresponsible, but what government agency these days is not. No matter how well built these plants are, they like anything else experience decay, much of which is not easily detectable until a situation like a leak occurs. When pushing the expected life of nuclear plants well beyond their design limitations, eventually the odds will fail you and something bad WILL happen. And I’m not just talking leaks here. That’s why my living situation considers being far and away removed from these places, and especially the weather patterns that can literally rain death on your head. Like Fukashima. The poor bastards on the West coast don’t know what is hitting them. Granted, in relation to the myriad of things that are killing us, radiation exposure may not be on the top of the list, but I wonder how many Cesium-137 cardiac arrests have occurred with doctors and the victims being none the wiser? The government is not going to tell you.

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