7/19/2012 Sweden's Ringhals-2 nuclear reactor fails after restart

Source: Reuters
Date: Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:45am EDT

Ringhals nuclear power plant in Varberg (Reuters / Scanpix Sweden)

(Reuters) - Sweden's Ringhals-2 nuclear reactor was shut down on Thursday morning, less than nine hours after being restarted, due to a technical glitch, the Nordic power exchange said in a market message.
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Five Men Agree To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb : NPR

Source: NPR
Date: 7/18/2012
by Robert Krulwich

Updated July 18, 2012: We have added an update to this post, which you can find below the original. Click here to read about what happened to the men.

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They weren't crazy. They weren't being punished. All but one volunteered to do this (which makes it all the more astonishing).
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7/18/2012 Electrical disturbance causes scram at Limerick nuclear plant - pottsmerc.com

Source: The Mercury [Pottstown, PA local paper]
Date: 7/18/2012

Only one cooling tower was emitting water vapor Wednesday, evidence of the Unit 1 shut down at Limerick Generating Station. John Strickler/The Mercury

(Updated at 2:35 p.m.) LIMERICK — An electrical disturbance in a “non-nuclear” part of Limerick Generating Station caused a disruption requiring the shut down of the Unit 1 reactor Wednesday morning.
The disturbance “caused a loss of power to generator cooling equipment” requiring a manual scram, or shutdown, of the reactor around 8:15 a.m., according to Dana Melia, communications manager at the nuclear plant,  “A manual scram occurs when the plant’s control room operators insert all of the control rods into the reactor at once, halting the fissioning process and shutting down the reactor,” explained Neil Sheehan of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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Editor's Note: Map of Limerick Nuclear Generating Station.

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