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Patching a pipe in a nuclear power plant with duct tape: we thought it would only happen on Prairie Home Companion. But this is an actual photo of the part of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant that houses the stop valve (at center) that malfunctioned August 30, causing the plant to surprise its operators by going into a scram. Notice the pipe at the right, with its duct tape patch. Note, too, the places where paint is missing and rust is taking hold. The plant’s owner, Entergy of Mississipi, has applied to extend the aging plant’s license from its current expiration date of 2012 to 2032. However, Lochbaum added, if you take into account the patched pipe, the scraped paint, the rust and the dust, “… the housekeeping here is not what the industry norm is. If you go to most plants, you could eat off the floor. …If this is the way they take care of the equipment they need to make money, what kind of care are they giving the equipment that protects the public?”
On September 6 and 13 the Advocate published this photo (lower right) of the cooling tower that collapsed at the plant August 21, a photo evidently taken by the same unknown photographer who took the one at top right. Taking these problems together—the crumbling cooling tower, the scram nine days later and the rundown look of the plant components shown in the photo of the valve—Lochbaum said,
“Unless these are two pictures that are totally unlike the rest of the plant, it’s not going to make it to 2012, much less 2032. This reactor needs a lot of upgrade.” That, he added, would be expensive.
Perhaps too expensive; maybe that’s why Financial Week just reported that Chicago-based Exelon may buy the five nuclear power plants now owned by Entergy. They are Vermont Yankee; the Pilgrim plant in Plymouth; Indian Point near New York City; the FitzPatrick plant in Oswego, N.Y., and Palisades in South Haven, Mich.
Meanwhile U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont last week confronted Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Dale Klein with the photo of the cooling tower collapse and demanding an independent safety assessment of the plant before the license extension is approved. “I would hope [local residents[ trust the NRC,” Klein replied.
Retorted Sanders, “They don’t.”
However, the widely circulated picture by the anonymous photographer brought an admission from Klein that’s rare for an NRC official. “When you see that visible collapse,” Klein said, “it is a concern, and you would question the maintenance and safety and so forth.”
Jay John inherited an enviable legacy of athletic excellence when he joined OSU in 1989. This photo shows former basketball coaches (left to right) Jimmy Anderson, Ralph Miller, and Paul Valenti posing with the 1962/1963 team. OSU President John Byrne is shown at the far right and Steve Paukey, Rex Benner, Mel Counts, Frank Peters, Terry Baker, Jim Jarvis, "Scram" Graham, Gary Rossi, and Waldo Ball are also present.
Surrey Cubs Run A Muck (SCRAM) 2013. Held at the Cranleigh Show Ground on the15th June 2013. Mixed weather and about 2000 Cub Scouts taking themselves around the things on offer.
The event happens every three years and is for the Cubs of Surrey.
A female Northern Flicker (L) warns an invasive starling (R) to “scram” from the suet cake seconds before she pokes the startling in the tushy.
Photos taken by at least two of my Cub Scouts, whilst at SCRAM 2013 using my spare camera. They took quiet a few pictures of the birds!
SCRAM is a CSurrey County Activity for Cub Scouts, held on the 15th June 2013.
Power comes from a hybrid propulsion system consisting of turbojets for atmospheric flight and acceleration to near-hyper-sonic speeds. Propulsion is then transitioned to SCRAM-Jets as the craft goes hyper-sonic and finally to plasma-pulse propulsion to achieve escape velocity and maneuver in space.
With the old metros all going to the scram yards now we now see the newer generations of metros 555005 seen doing a test run to St James before they arrive for the summer deadline.
Made for the October 1 Hero Arts 90 minute scramble. Silly peacock, he doesn't want anybody to think that HE'S the turkey for the Thanksgiving meal :)
For details go ahead to this bloggy post: rwkrafts.blogspot.com/2011/10/world-card-making-day-scram...
One of the members of Polizia di Stato (Italian State Police) must have gotten a good shot of something on his digicam. Them he told me to scram after I took this shot.