\n \nDave Lochbaum wrote for Union of Concerned Scientists 18 June 2013, \nThe \nWhile accidents can also happen with wind turbines or even \n \nANO1 is run by \n -jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Apparently we still don’t know why this happened: At approximately 7:50am on Sunday, March 31, 2013, a 600-ton generator stator fell onto the turbine deck and then about 30 feet to the train bay floor as was being lifted out of the Unit 1 turbine building at the Arkansas Nuclear One plant. One worker was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,73,3],"tags":[6672,3615,6673,824,663,6676,6675,8702,12,117,8737,8731,6674,8700,2431,6406],"class_list":["post-4725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear","category-safety","category-transparency","tag-ano1","tag-arkansas","tag-arkansas-nuclear-one","tag-baseload","tag-entergy","tag-fatality","tag-fragile","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-nrc","tag-nuclear","tag-safety","tag-ton","tag-transparency","tag-turbine","tag-union-of-concerned-scientists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4725"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4790,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725\/revisions\/4790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n![](\"http:\/\/enformable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ANO-stator-3-425x528.jpg\")
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\nAt approximately 7:50am on Sunday, March 31, 2013, a 600-ton
\ngenerator stator fell onto the turbine deck and then about 30 feet
\nto the train bay floor as was being lifted out of the Unit 1 turbine
\nbuilding at the Arkansas Nuclear One plant. One worker was killed
\nand four others injured when the load fell.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n
\nFission Stories #139: Arkansas Nuclear One Fatal Event<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n
\n
\nNRC reviewed U.S. nuclear plant experience with lifting loads
\nwith cranes<\/a> between 1968 and 2002. The NRC reported that about two
\nload drops per year happened during this period with ten incidents
\ncausing deaths. The NRC’s review concluded that there had been only
\nthree very heavy load drops (defined as a load weighing more than 30
\ntons). ANO-1 makes four.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\ninstalling solar panels on rooftops,
\na single solar or wind accident doesn’t take down
\n
\n2,568 megwatts<\/a> for 3 1\/2 months.
\nBig baseload is fragile.
\nAnd ANO1 is still down:\n<\/p>\n
\n![\"ANO1](\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2846\/9301324274_7bc0c61baf_z.jpg\")
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\nEntergy<\/a>, the same company that
\n
\ncouldn’t keep the power on during the Super Bowl, and couldn’t keep Pilgrim 1 open during a Massachusetts snowstorm<\/a>.
\nThe bigger they are, the harder they fall.<\/p>\n