Category Archives: Browns Ferry

Event Reports: Failed Fitness for Duty reports in four nuclear power plants

Posted on October 20, 2012 by

Four nuclear power plants reported to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the last two weeks that employees had failed Fitness for Duty screens for drugs or alcohol. Alcohol was the culprit at Sequoyah in Tennessee and at Browns Ferry in … Continue reading →

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Event Reports: Two stalled reactors have problems on attempted restart

Posted on May 25, 2012 by

A couple of Event Reports on the NRC website today have a common thread: Reactors that were shut down earlier in the week failed to work properly when operators attempted to restart them: 1. As I told you yesterday, Unit 3 at … Continue reading →

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Event Reports: Reactor scrams in Louisiana, Alabama and Massachusetts, Fitness for Duty violations in Alabama and Illinois

Posted on May 24, 2012 by

Another busy week at the NRC Event Reports page: 1. Monday afternoon, Unit 1 at the River Bend nuclear power plant in Louisiana shut down automatically after low condensor vacuum resulted in a turbine trip. Following the scram, water level in … Continue reading →

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Event Reports: Three nuclear facilities fail recent tests

Posted on April 20, 2012 by

Some items from this morning’s NRC Event Reports page: 1. Global Nuclear Fuels notified the NRC that one of the alarm sirens, part of its onsite Critical Accident Alerm System at its nuclear fuel fabrication facility in Wilmington, North Carolina, was found … Continue reading →

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Event Report: Alabama nuke might not be able to shut down in event of fire

Posted on February 9, 2012 by

Browns Ferry nuclear power plant told the NRC this morning that a recent review had cast doubts on the ability of the facility’s reactors to shut down in the event of a fire in a particular location. According to the … Continue reading →

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