Russia has repeated threated the use of nuclear weapons against the United States and other Western nations such as members of the European Union. Russia has sent their nuclear weapon equipped planes into other nations airspaces without permission and sailed its nuclear armed ships and submarines though other nations coastal waters without permission.
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Westinghouse is bullish enough on the SMR technology that it has announced plans to build a series of SMRs called AP300s. According to Reuters, the company “has had informal talks with parties in neighboring states Ohio and West Virginia about the potential building of AP300s at former coal plants.”
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If Dominion proceeds with plans for an SMR, it will have to balance the enthusiasm of Southwest Virginia with the fact that it could simply site an SMR one of its existing nuclear facilities in North Anna and Surry. This would certainly be less expensive and raise fewer objections.
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One pipefitter involved in the 2021 incident was initially found to have an internal dose of nine hundred and sixty millirems and the second had an internal dose of seven hundred and eleven millirems.
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Energy Northwest (EN) is the Pacific Northwest’s only commercial nuclear power plant. It is located on the Hanford Reservation in south central Washington state. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has announced that EN failed to correctly measure the exposure of workers who inhales or ingested radioactive materials during an incident at EN.