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Vermont Yankee Finds 'Missing' Fuel Rods
Champlain Channel ^
| July 14, 2004
Posted on 07/15/2004 7:38:13 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter
VERNON, Vt. -- Two highly radioactive pieces of spent nuclear fuel reported missing three months ago appear to have been where they were supposed to be all along.
A spokesman for the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Vermont Yankee has told the NRC it found the fuel rods in the spent fuel pool at the plant.
Vermont Yankee officials said last week they had found records at a General Electric laboratory in California that appeared to provide a key clue as to the fuel pieces' whereabouts.
Workers found the spent rods inside a cylinder that was sent to Vermont Yankee by GE specifically to hold the fuel segments.
Searchers found the canister at the bottom of the spent rod pool and opened it up, discovering the rods late Tuesday afternoon.
Vermont Yankee said it has updated its records to make sure something like that doesn't happen again.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; US: Vermont; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: vermontyankee
To: doug from upland
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posted on
07/15/2004 7:39:18 PM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(06/07/04 - 1000 days since 09/11/01)
To: Straight Vermonter
DOH!
To: COEXERJ145
Tell me the record keeper's name is Homer... must be.
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posted on
07/15/2004 7:48:00 PM PDT
by
C210N
To: .30Carbine
... appear to have been where they were supposed to be all along."Ayup. Shoulda looked where I put 'em."
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posted on
07/15/2004 8:20:33 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Intellectuals only exist if you think they do!)
To: Straight Vermonter
Thanks for the good news.
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posted on
07/15/2004 10:03:41 PM PDT
by
doug from upland
(Don't wait until it is too late to stop Hillary -- do something today!)
To: Straight Vermonter
Gee, I read on FR a few days ago that Al Qaeda had stolen these rods and a fuel truck in NJ, and it had a bunch of suitcase bombs...
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posted on
07/15/2004 10:06:22 PM PDT
by
Koblenz
(Not bad, not bad at all. -- Ronald Reagan, the Greatest President.)
To: Straight Vermonter; MeekOneGOP; potlatch; devolve; Happy2BMe
Gee, I'm almost ready to forgive Howard Dean!!!
I said almost, which really means never.
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posted on
07/15/2004 10:09:05 PM PDT
by
Smartass
( BUSH & CHENEY IN 2004 - Si vis pacem, para bellum - Por el dedo de Dios se escribió.)
To: Smartass; Straight Vermonter; MeekOneGOP; potlatch; devolve
Would Howard Dean forgive George Bush for removing Saddam Hussein from power and liberating millions of wretched souls from tyranny?
:~)
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posted on
07/15/2004 10:23:05 PM PDT
by
Happy2BMe
(Ronald Reagan to Islamic Terrorism: YOU CAN RUN - BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE!)
To: Straight Vermonter
They said this at the time. I clearly remember the people at the plant saying that it was very likely that these rods were in the pool.
The plant operators were very calm about the whole thing.
It was the media going crazy about it. They tried to work people into a panic.
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posted on
07/16/2004 2:52:22 AM PDT
by
texasflower
(in the event of the rapture.......the Bush White House will be unmanned)
To: C210N
Tell me the record keeper's name is Homer... If it wasn't then, it is NOW!
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posted on
07/16/2004 5:59:40 AM PDT
by
Jambe
To: Smartass
hahaha ! Doh ! They coulda had a V-8 !! :^D
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posted on
07/16/2004 6:40:48 AM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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