I've witnessed it a couple of times. These things happen.

I presume that a nuke plant has contingencies for precisely this event since they are a known.

This plant had an accident a year ago. Person killed and three injured. Couldn't find how the person died when checking on this story that was posted in LBN here and there was no follow up.

The accident was when something (I say this since I can't remember) was being moved around. It was big, it was heavy... And it fell.

I'll go and look it up. I should remember more about this incident, since I live about 10 miles away from the damn thing.

You're supposed to title the thread "Nuke event in Arkansas", and then link to a disaster monitoring site in Hungary.

Sid

(Apparently the family filed a "Wrongful Death" lawsuit. He was operating a crane...the article is below this one)

One dead, three injured in Arkansas nuclear plant accident

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/31/17540838-one-dead-three-injured-in-arkansas-nuclear-plant-accident?lite
By Sofia Perpetua, NBCNews.com

An accident at an Arkansas nuclear power plant at 7:45 a.m. local time resulted in the death of one worker and left three injured, but did not cause radiation and it is not a public health risk, according to the Arkansas Department of Health.

"There was no nuclear release of any kind," said Ed Barham, a spokesman for the Arkansas Health Department.

The accident took place in Russellville, a city with 28,000 residents, about 81 miles from Little Rock.

“There is no danger to the public,” said Entergy Operations, Inc, owner of the plant, Arkansas Nuclear One, in a statement.

KTHV, a Little Rock television station, reported that residents heard a large boom at the time of the incident.

According to Entergy, part of generator fell as it was being moved and the plant automatically shut down.

The injured workers have been transported to a nearby hospital.

“Our greatest sympathy is with the family and friends of the employee who lost his life, and with those who sustained injuries,” said Jeff Forbes, executive vice president and chief nuclear officer.

The accident is classified as an "unusual event," the lowest of four emergency classifications by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Entergy said.

The company delivers electricity to 2.8 million customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, has annual revenues of more than $10 billion and has approximately 15,000 employees.

Arkansas Nuclear One provides 30 percent of the state’s energy, according to the plant’s website.

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RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (KTHV) - The family of a man killed after a machinery accident at Nuclear One on March 31 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit.

The accident happened when a piece of machinery weighing 600 tons fell and killed 24-year-old Wade Walters. At least five other people were injured in the accident.

The suit states, "This is an action for wrongful death, ordinary negligence, negligent hiring, negligent training, negligent supervision, negligent retention, negligent hiring of an independent contractor, for declaratory judgment, and for punitive damages, stemming from multiple incidents of recklessness and negligence that lead to the collapse of an industrial crane on Easter Sunday, 2013, killing Wade Walters."

he suit, which was filed July 2 in Polk County Circuit Court, is filed against the following entities:

• Bigge Power Constructors
• Bigge Crane and Rigging Co.
• Bigge Group, Inc.
• Siemens Energy, Inc.
• DP Engineering, Inc.
• Entergy Arkansas, Inc.
• Entergy Operations, Inc.
• John Doe 1, John Doe 2, John Doe 3

The suit is being brought by the Estate of Wade Walters by Susan Allen, Administratrix of his estate and Walters' mother.
Walters was employed by Precision Surveillance Corporation, which was contracted by Entergy Arkansas, Inc. and/or Entergy Operations, Inc. and/or Siemens Energy, Inc.

According to the suit, Entergy had scheduled downtime with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to remove the Main Turbine Generator Stator. If the process was not completed in the time agreed upon, Entergy would be fined. When Entergy tried to get the company they regularly use to move the Stator, the company said they couldn't do it safely in the time frame allowed; other companies concurred. Entergy eventually found a company who would perform the duty and opened Bigge was the lowest bidder, according to the suit.

The suit alleges that the crane was specially constructed for the job and that no load test was done on the floor that the crane was to travel across. During the first attempt on March 30, the crane became unstable, according to the suit. They aborted and retried the next morning. As it was moving, workers realized it would not clear a guard rail. The suit said Walters and others were asked to cut the railing for it to fit.

When they had cut the railing and moving away from the Stator, the crane collapsed. When it collapsed, the beams of the crane bent and fell. One of the beams struck Walters, "causing massive physical injuries."

A report from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said the plant followed protocol after the incident.

two significant "events" in the last year? Maybe ENTERGY has some problems and there just might be a bit of "Cover Up" stench?

Or...is it..."Nothing to see here...just move along?"