But just as Frizzle was talking to the press Wednesday morning, problems during routine testing of reactor safety systems caused Maine Yankee to shut down automatically.
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The impoverished Balkan country has invested dlrs 140 million to improve reactor safety and has repeatedly declined Western calls for early closure of the older four units.
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Art Howell, the NRC's regional director of reactor safety, said that from 1999 to 2001, 20 such instances have occurred, including the 11 covered by the inspector's report.
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The Advanced LWR Nuclear Fuels Pathway performs research on improving reactor safety, increasing fuel economics, producing advanced cladding designs, and developing enhanced computational models to predict fuel performance.
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It is stated on the site dedicated to the FFTF, that it tested " advanced components, nuclear power plant operations and maintenance protocols, and reactor safety designs ."
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States, the Supreme Court has ruled, can make decisions about whether, and where, a reactor or other type of power plant can be built, but not about reactor safety.
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Ukraine's nuclear officials acknowledge that the number of reactor malfunctions at the country's five nuclear power plants are increasing because plants cannot afford to fully finance reactor safety upgrades.
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"Irrespective of shutdown ( plans ), safety improvements have to be made at a number of stations, " said Birkhofer, who also heads the Reactor Safety Association in Munich, Germany.
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The country's five nuclear power plants are so strapped for cash that they have virtually stopped paying to maintain reactor safety and cannot afford to pay wages to their personnel.
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Dwight Chamberlain, the NRC's regional director of reactor safety, said the agency is analyzing the Comanche Peak problem to see if it can learn something about the detection of flaws.
