Davis-Besse Near-Meltdown, Minute by Minute

Описание: February 16, 2002. During a routine outage at Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Ohio, maintenance workers made a shocking discovery: a football-sized cavity had eaten through 6 inches of reactor vessel steel, leaving only a paper-thin layer of stainless cladding between 2,250 psi of primary coolant and catastrophic failure.

For years, boric acid deposits concealed the corrosion. Instruments showed normal readings. Inspections followed procedures. Every safety parameter was green—while the reactor pressure boundary silently dissolved beneath insulation and crusts.

This is the documented story of one of the most serious near-misses in U.S. nuclear history: how a small leak, organizational gaps, and regulatory oversight failures converged into a crisis that reshaped federal nuclear policy. Told through official reports, engineering analyses, NRC investigations, and GAO reviews—with no fiction, only facts.

Sources: NRC Augmented Inspection Team Reports, GAO-04-415, NRC Lessons Learned Task Force, Oak Ridge National Laboratory analyses, Argonne National Laboratory reviews.
Documentary nuclear history. No dramatization. Only documented events.

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