Around 07:50 on Easter Sunday Morning, an accident at the Arkansas Nuclear Power Plant not only killed one worker and injured others it also left the Unit 1 reactor without offsite power. 

Workers were using the Unit 1 turbine temporary lift device to move the Main Turbine Generator Stator, which weighs over 500 tons, out of the turbine building when it fell.  The lift crane failed, dropping the load, which resulted in a crash which was heard by local residents miles from the site, and tripped the Unit 2 reactor.  There was one known fatality and 4 known serious injuries to workers.

The event caused a loss of decay heat removal at Unit 1, which was restored some four minutes later.   As the Unit 1 lost all off site power, the Emergency Diesel Generators were started and are supplying backup power.

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http://enformable.com/2013/04/accident-at-arkansas-nuclear-one-leaves-unit-without-offsite-power/

“All of the mainstream media articles that were published yesterday about this “incident” failed to mention the loss of power and loss of decay heat… let alone linked to the actual NRC notification. Let’s hope they can learn something from this reporting style instead of remaining childishly ignorant to the real consequences of science and technology malfunctions.”