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Nuclear Modernization

Flying Turkey Briefly Caused Loss of Power at Y-12

Wednesday, April 13th, 2022

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Flying Turkey Briefly Caused Loss of Power at Y-12

A turkey flew into an overhead powerline and tripped a circuit breaker at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., last month, blacking out buildings on the west side of the site and very briefly affected critical safety systems in facilities that produce key nuclear-weapon components, federal officials said this week. “The outage lasted approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes,” a spokesperson for Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS), the site prime, wrote in an email Tuesday afternoon. “All nuclear facilities…

Congress

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Unmanned Systems

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Congress

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