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2005-01-25 Home Front: Tech

Fermi 2 nuclear power plant in Michigan is shut down...

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Posted by anonymous2u 2005-01-25 12:26:39 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 On the 16th, the Fermi 2 facility completed a scheduled 27 day outage for maintenance and refuelling.
Detroit Edison

Quite a bit of work was done during that period:
-Replacement of the computer that manages the visual annunciator system in the control room.
-Replacement of 23 control-rod drive mechanisms, 13 control rod blades and eight local power range monitors.
-Replacement of 15 main steam safety relief valves.
-Replacement of the coolant water pump on one of the plantâs four emergency diesel generators.
-Inspection and maintenance of the reactor core isolation cooling system turbine, which is performed every 10 years.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-01-25 2:41:55 AM|| 2005-01-25 2:41:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 ...and the swing shift hamsters got tiny cups replentished for their little coke machines.

Posted by the squirrel 2005-01-25 4:37:19 AM|| 2005-01-25 4:37:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Infant mortality on the maintenance, then?

Posted by Dishman 2005-01-25 11:56:21 AM|| 2005-01-25 11:56:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I used to be able to see the Fermi from my dad's house across the water in MI. Pretty cool place.

Posted by Jarhead 2005-01-25 12:41:27 PM|| 2005-01-25 12:41:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 ...Fermi had a weird accident in the 70s not long after it opened that IIRC was similar to this and was badly overhyped in the book We Almost Lost Detroit - but the point of the book (that Detroit Edison badly botched the design and construction of the plant) was never seriously questioned.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-01-25 10:22:55 PM|| 2005-01-25 10:22:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Sorry - that was the 60s, and here's some more data on the record of the plant:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sanders/214/other/news/fermi2.html

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-01-25 10:27:19 PM|| 2005-01-25 10:27:19 PM|| Front Page Top

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