The Tennessee Valley Authority on Dec. 13 secured the reactor vessel head after loading 193 nuclear fuel assemblies into the 1,150-MW newly built unit at Watts Bar nuclear generating station in Spring City, Tenn.
A recent U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission report noted that safety-related structural welds at the Savannah River site’s Mixed-Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, or MOX, failed to meet industry specifications, according to The Augusta Chronicle.
Hurricane Sandy exceeded officials’ worst fears and dealt a knock-out punch to New York City’s century-old-plus-infrastructure, leaving an unprecedented 800,000 customers without power and millions more without public transportation for what could be weeks.