Nuclear reactor jacksonville florida

Submit Photos and Videos. Tell Us Something Good. Gray DC Bureau. Investigate TV. Be Our Guest. One Class At A Time. Latest Newscasts. Federal officers conducting nuclear response training in NCFL. Published: Oct. Share on Facebook. Email This Link. Share on Twitter. In August, the U. Nuclear Regulatory Commission released the results of a special inspection that said two sets of electrical cables that are supposed to provide redundancy in Unit 3 weren't properly separated.

Construction monitors have long criticized the project for sloppy workmanship and unrealistic timelines. The company said in stock market filing Thursday that the latest delay stems from more substandard construction work at Unit 3 that must be redone. It said contractors continue to not meet schedules for completing work. Georgia Power said for years that Unit 3 would be in commercial operation by November , but has pushed back that deadline three times since May.

The company and regulators insist the plant — the first new U. Opponents have long pointed to what they say would be cheaper, better options, including natural gas or solar generation. Specifically, Markey raised questions about a reactor design the NRC is reviewing for new plants that has been criticized for seismic vulnerability.

In February , Westinghouse put off building the Levy nuclear plant at least three years due to licensing issues. The NRC originally rejected the design for the Westinghouse reactor. Westinghouse is owned by Toshiba, a Japanese company. The New York Times reported last week that the NRC has reviewed the concerns raised by the engineer, John Ma, and concluded that the design is sufficient without the upgrades Ma recommended.

Westinghouse maintains that the reactor is safe. Boiling water reactors , like the ones hit by the Japanese earthquake, are built like nested matroyshka dolls. The inner doll, which looks like a gigantic cocktail shaker and holds the radioactive uranium, is the heavy steel reactor vessel.

It sits inside a concrete and steel dome called the containment. The reactor vessel is the primary defense against disaster — as long as the radiation stays inside everything is fine. The worry is that a disaster could either damage the vessel itself or, more likely, damage equipment that used to control the uranium. If operators cannot circulate water through the vessel to cool the uranium it could overheat and burn into radioactive slag — a meltdown.

Reports say a partial meltdown is suspected in two of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan, which was hit by the 8. Reactors have multiple layers of equipment to make sure this never happens. Markey cited the Chuetsu earthquake 6. The quake started a fire, spilled some low-level radioactive waste and damaged equipment that was not critical to the reactor. He also listed a few cases in which other natural disasters had damaged nuclear plants, like a tornado that knocked out power to the Davis-Besse plant outside Toledo, Ohio, or Hurricane Andrew, which knocked out power to the Turkey Point plant south of Miami site for five days in Francisville, La.

News reports have said the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station went to backup diesel power after the quake but lost it, along with the ability to keep cooling water flowing. For instance, NRC regulations require that every plant is built to survive an earthquake larger than the strongest ever recorded in the area. The agency says it periodically updates earthquake estimations as more detailed information becomes available.

Most recently, the NRC spent five years reassessing earthquake risk for nuclear plants in the Midwest and eastern United States. The results of the study, which were released last September, confirmed that the plants were built to withstand the heaviest quake likely for their area.

However, the NRC found that the risk of earthquake was greater than expected in some areas, so the agency plans further research. The critical structures and equipment at the plant are built to withstand the maximum quake, and the plant has to shut down for inspection if it sustains a quake higher than the operating basis.

As the crow flies, they may be closer than the St. Lucie plants. Thanks Jim, and thank you Tom for that reminder: the article has been updated to include the two reactors in Southern Georgia. Although you scare the living hell out of me with articles like this one, I have to appreciate your effort to share the information about what could possibly happen with these things.

I thank FlaglerLive for this type of reporting. But if for some reason the shit does hit the fan there is always Carter,Clinton,Obama,Pelosi and Reid to blame it on, oh and Muslims too. I grew up under the shadows, literally of a nuclear reactor and no not 3 mile island, I was not born for that event. Every day on the way to school we passed by the double set of towers. One day the sirens blasted and a warning went out on the radio and the airwaves, potential stage 3 incident at the reactor.

We had to gather everything we could in about 15 minutes and evacuate. We were lucky, they were able to avert disaster. Yes, it was scary but this is just another of humanities creations that we have to deal with.

It is a shame that solar and wind power do not have the same economic punch that oil, coal, natural gas, and nuclear energy do because then maybe people would take that form of energy seriously.

People need to take into context what happened in Japan too, a 9. Yes, there is still danger but you cannot live your life in fear, be prepared and be alert that is about all you can do. PC Man: another SA remark. Obama is not backing down from his faith in this type of power, do you have a better plan, or do just want to blame someone for something that has not happened. May be we should ban cars they kill thousands each year, then we can blame Henry Ford.

It is people like you who give Americans a bad name, brainless, comes to mind. I bet you do not blame Scott or Obama for your life style, someone must be paying someone to take care of your sorry ass. He is the sole reason we have never had a deadly nuclear incident in the western world.

The Admiral was certain that only the Military was capable of safely running this dangerous technology safely. Running them solely for profit would inevitably prove disastrous. Looks like we will find out soon in Japan. Then, 96 of every washed out before graduation, including me. Go figure.