Federal officials have issued a warning about a substantial safety violation at a South Carolina nuclear plant after cracks were discovered.
Federal officials have issued a warning about a substantial safety violation at a South Carolina nuclear plant after cracks were discovered again in a backup emergency fuel line. Small cracks have been found a half-dozen times in the last 20 years in pipes that carry fuel to emergency generators that provide cooling water for a reactor if electricity fails at the V.C. Summer plant near Columbia, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Corp. built and started the plant in 1984. The South Carolina company had plans to build two more reactors, but billions of dollars of cost overruns forced it to abandon the project in 2017 and sell to Dominion. Dominion has recently requested to renew the license for the nuclear plant for an additional 40 years. Longtime nuclear safety advocate Tom Clements told the newspaper that the pipe problems should mean a lot more scrutiny by regulators.
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