04/01/2011  Fission Stories #44 chronicles the reactor’s fall and rise and fall: shut down in March 1985 after being graded by the NRC as one of the worst reactors in the country; restarting in February 2007 and within a few short years again earning the NRC’s lowest grades.

09/18/2006  UCS documented the factors leading to the decade-plus reactor outage that began in March 1985 in this case study for our Walking a Nuclear Tightrope report.  See details | Download the pdf

04/24/1983  Fission Stories #34 explains how different ways of looking at maps led to workers offloading 130 irradiated fuel bundles from the reactor core into an unqualified and unapproved storage rack in the spent fuel pool.

03/22/1975  Fission Stories #16 explains how a worker using a candle to search for air leaks in the room directly below the control room started a fire that disabled all of the emergency core cooling systems for Unit 1 and most of those systems for Unit 2.