Pipe Rupture at Surry Nuclear Plant Kills Four Workers - Union of Concerned Scientists

Pipe Rupture at Surry Nuclear Plant Kills Four Workers - Union of Concerned Scientists: Role of Regulation in Nuclear Plant Safety #7

Both reactors at the Surry nuclear plant near Williamsburg, Virginia operated at full power on December 9, 1986. Around 2:20 pm, a valve in a pipe between a steam generator on Unit 2 and its turbine inadvertently closed due to a re-assembly error foll