One man was killed and eight were injured in a crane failure at the Arkansas Nuclear One power plant on 31 March. An unexplained failure caused a heavy lift gantry to collapse in the process of moving a 500-tonne component inside the turbine building.
An order by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has reinforced a voluntary commitment by Honeywell to keep the Metropolis uranium conversion plant offline until post-Fukushima safety improvements are complete.
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An American court has sentenced a former engineering safety manager to 78 months in prison for falsifying information about injuries at three nuclear power plant sites._64x48.jpg "Cattenom (EDF) 64x48")
Two contract workers have died and a third seriously injured in an accident during maintenance work in a reactor building at EDF's Cattenom nuclear power plant in north-eastern France. 48.jpg "AP1000 control room simulator (Westinghouse) 48")
New control room simulators will be used in the training of operators for the AP1000 units currently under construction at Sanmen and Haiyang in China. The first batch of operators is set to qualify by the end of this year.