Damaged Fuel Rods Found at Nuclear Power Plant

Dominion Virginia Power has discovered two damaged nuclear fuel rods at its North Anna power plant, 90 miles (140 km) southwest of Washington, and has shut it down

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Damaged Nuclear Fuel Rods Found in North Anna Reactor

POWER magazine - ‎Sep 30, 2014‎

Dominion Virginia Power found two damaged nuclear fuel rods in Unit 2 of its North Anna Power Station located in Louisa County northwest of Richmond. The discovery was made during a regularly scheduled refueling outage that began on Sept. 7. http://www.powermag.com/damaged-nuclear-fuel-rods-found-in-north-anna-reactor/

 

Nuclear fuel rods found damaged at Va. power plant

Washington Post - ‎Sep 30, 2014‎

MINERAL, Va. — Dominion Virginia Power has found two damaged nuclear fuel rods in a reactor at its North Anna power plant in Louisa County. The Richmond-based energy provider says the damaged fuel rods were discovered during the reactor's ...

 

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Damaged Nuclear Fuel Rods Found at North Anna Power Plant

The Charlottesville Newsplex - ‎Sep 30, 2014‎

While performing a scheduled refueling, Dominion Virginia Power discovered damage to their fuel rods inside of a nuclear reactor at their North Anna power plant in Louisa County. According to Richard Zuercher, aspokesperson from Dominion Nuclear, ... 

 

Two nuclear fuel rods found damaged during North Anna power plant refueling

Lynchburg News and Advance - ‎Sep 30, 2014‎

Dominion Virginia Power has found two damaged nuclear fuel rods in its North Anna 2 power plant during the Louisa County reactor's scheduled refueling this month. The Richmond-based utility believes that about 15 uranium fuel pellets came out of two rods ...