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FirstEnergy agrees to $20 million settlement in Ohio bribery case
The State of Ohio and FirstEnergy reached a settlement this week to avoid prosecution in an ongoing corruption investigation involving the Davis-Besse and Perry nuclear plants.
In 2021, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio charged the energy company with conspiring “with public officials and other individuals and entities to pay millions of dollars to public officials in exchange for specific official action for FirstEnergy Corp.’s benefit.”
FirstEnergy will pay $19.5 million to the attorney general’s office within five business days and will pay $500,000 for an independent consultant to review and confirm unspecified “changes and remediation efforts” within the company. The company will also cooperate with investigators for two years or until the investigation, litigation, or prosecution is complete.
W. A. Swansiger
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 861-866
Material; Storage and Processing | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29857
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Tritium permeabilities were determined at room temperature, 1.0 MPa (150 psia) tritium for three 23.4 cm diameter EPDM (ethylene-propylene-diene monomer) O-rings using a full-scale mock-up of the AL-SX shipping container seal geometry. The AL-SX container is being developed by Sandia National Laboratories for shipping tritium reservoirs. To determine the tritium permeation rate as a function of temperature, a 50.8 mm diameter EPDM O-ring was tested from room temperature to 150° C at a pressure of 1.0 MPa. Additional permeation measurements were made under the following test conditions: (1) deuterium and helium-4 at room temperature and a pressure of 1.0 MPa using the full-scale AL-SX fixture, (2) tritium from 0.1 MPa to 1.0 MPa at 142° C using the 50.8 mm fixture, and (3) deuterium from room temperature to 150° C at a pressure of 1.0 MPa using the 50.8 mm fixture. Multiple permeation runs using the three full-scale O-rings showed the average room temperature, 1.0 MPa steady state tritium permeation rate to be about 1 × 10−2 Pa-liter/sec (7.6 × 10−5 torr-liter/sec or 1 × 10−4 std cc/sec), well within the allowable limit of 7.1 × 10−2 Pa-liter/sec for tritium release from the AL-SX container. Based on the temperature dependence derived from tests on the 50.8 mm fixture, the permeation rate through the large O-ring at 1.0 MPa tritium, 150° C would be about 60% of the allowable limit. The tritium permeability was found to vary linearly with pressure within the range explored.