On October 5, 1966, the most ambitious of all the American electric utilities' nuclear power projects, Detroit Edison's experimental commercial breeder reactor, named Fermi I, on the shores of Lake Erie, ran into serious trouble. A piece of metal had worked loose at the bottom of the reactor and had partially clogged the flow of the core coolant, the core assembly had become overheated, a tiny part of it melted, releasing dangerous radioactive gases into the containment structures, and, for all the engineers knew, it seemed as though a major disaster was imminent. At the time, the reactor crew had no idea what had gone wrong, nor how to remedy it. Six months would pass before they could determine the extent of the damage and a full year before they had found the cause. In the early days of the accident, they could only hope the damaged core would stabilize itself without further mishap.
The Nuclear Barons - Peter Pringle and James Spigelman p.280
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At another unidentified reactor in April 1966, radioactive water was found in one of the plant drinking fountains. Investigators discovered a hose connected from a well-water tank to a 3,000-gallon radioactive waste tank. The AEC said that the "coupling of a contaminated system with a potable water system is considered poor practice in general..."
Nugget File - Stephen H. Hanauer
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