Clinton Nuclear Plant in Hot Water

Clinton Nuclear Plant in Hot Water All Things Nuclear by Dave Lochbaum  /  2h  //  keep unread  //  hide  //  preview +Tag Fission Stories #166 http://allthingsnuclear.org/clinton-nuclear-plant-in-hot-water/ Workers were restarting the Clinton nuclear power plant in Illinois on October 28, 2013, following its refueling outage. It did not take them long to literally get into hot water. Clinton is a boiling water reactor. During the refueling outage, workers removed the domed head of the reactor pressure vessel, the steam dryer, and the steam separator in order to access the reactor core. They moved some fuel bundles to the spent fuel pool and replaced them with new fuel bundles. Then workers put the reactor pressure vessel back together and turned to restarting the reactor by withdrawing control rods from the reactor core.