Entergy reactor up,
connected to grid
Arkansas Nuclear One’s Unit 2 reactor began producing power Sunday and was reconnected to the electricity grid, Entergy Arkansas said.
The reactor had been offline since March 31, when it shut down automatically after a 550-ton piece of equipment fell as it was being moved in a nonnuclear part of the plant.
The accident resulted in the death of a worker and injuries to eight others.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently completed an investigation of the accident and will hold a public meeting to answer questions at 2 p.m.
on May 9 at the plant near Russellville.
The plant’s second reactor remains idle, Entergy Arkansas said.
- David SmithGlitch knocks out telephone service
Windstream Corp.
telephone customers in several states experienced service failures Monday, a company spokesman said.
Spokesman David Avery said the Little Rockbased company “had a long distance and toll free outage” that started at 10:30 a.m.
Avery said service was restored for most customers by 4 p.m. Windstream customers on Twitter.com and Facebook.com were posting at 4:15 p.m. that they were still without service.
Avery did not know the cause of the service failure.
News reports indicated that the service failure affected customers in North Carolina and Kentucky.
Messages on the company’s Twitter account also said service was out in Florida. Both on Facebook and Twitter, customers from Missouri, Tennessee and Alabama described problems with their Windstream service.
- Jessica SeamanArkansas stocks up; truckers gain
The Arkansas Index, a price-weighted index that tracks the largest public companies based in the state, gained 0.81 to 269.19 Monday.
“Encouraging economic data indicating that low borrowing costs helped the recovery of the housing market along with news that U.S. consumer incomes grew in March despite the Social Security tax hike helped drive stock prices higher,” said Bob Williams, senior vice president and managing director of Delta Trust Investments Inc. in Little Rock. “Arkansas equities mirrored the broader markets with advancing issues outpacing declining stocks by a 2-to-1 ratio.”
Transportation firms had the strongest performance, with USA Truck gaining almost 4 percent while P.A.M.
Transportation Services rose nearly 3 percent, Williams said.
The index was developed by Bloomberg News and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette with a base value of 100 as of Dec. 30, 1997.
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