Burlington Nuclear Plant Says Safety Remains Priority
Associtated Press - Sat 12:20 PM 09/22/2012
A spokeswoman says officials at Kansas' Wolf Creek nuclear power plant take safety seriously and have corrected a problem that led to a January shutdown.
A spokeswoman says officials at Kansas' Wolf Creek nuclear power plant take safety seriously and have corrected a problem that led to a January shutdown.
Jenny Hageman commented Friday after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it dropped its rating for the plant in the east-central Kansas town of Burlington. The NRC says it plans additional inspections.
The January 13th shutdown followed a loss of off-site power. The NRC blames an electrical short caused by improper wiring.
Hageman says the plant's operators did extensive inspections to make sure a similar problem did not exist elsewhere.
NRC spokesman Victor Dricks says the agency has dropped Wolf Creek into its third-lowest rated category of licensed nuclear reactors. Only seven other of the nation's 104 reactors have the same or a lower rating.
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ConservativeR
Saturday 22 September 2012 19:44 Report this comment
This is a very troubling issue. How does defective workmanship go undetected at a nuclear facility? A meltdown could contaminate the entire midwest and kill millions of people. How did the inspectors miss this defective workmanship?
Victory2012
Saturday 22 September 2012 23:52 Report this comment
I agree. It will be the defective $2.00 part or shoddy routine inspection that puts us all at risk.
madmortarman
Sunday 23 September 2012 03:01 Report this comment
Do you people know anything about nuclear power, other than it is nuclear? Nuclear energy is one of the best sources of power. Those plants have back up systems after back up systems.... Just because you loose off site power doesn't mean you loose cooling. What do you think that big lake is for at Wolf Creek? They have huge diesel generators that kick in once they loose their off site power, and it is designed to keep the plant operating safely.
Victory2012
Sunday 23 September 2012 12:04 Report this comment
I understood the process and it is not quite as you describe. When site power is lost the plant is designed to shut down, not keep operating with the water form the big lake. Processes fail too, and we have Three Mile Isalnd, Fukashima, Chernobyl to show that, and to show the huge scope of such disasters. But the article says the NRC says that the shutdown was caused by an electrical short caused by improper wiring and my point was that we should catch the fact that an electrician/engineer wired something wrong through competent review and inspection of that kind of work.
GETALIFE674
Monday 24 September 2012 01:52 Report this comment
Hmmm victory2012 did you not make positive comments on the bio center at manhattan that is just as bad if not worst being on campus? Sorry redneckwatch just remember your past before you were kicked off here.