Category Archives: Grand Gulf

Event Reports: Fire at Mississippi nuke, a supervisor on drugs at Florida facility and an Arkansas TV station issues an inaccurate emergency alert

Here’s some items from today’s NRC Event Reports: 1. Yesterday evening, a fire broke out in ‘A’ Main Condensor at the Grand Gulf nuclear power plant in Mississippi. The on-site fire brigade was dispatched to fight the blaze and the … Continue reading

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Event Reports: Fires in South Carolina and Florida, a lightning strike in Mississippi and a reactor shutdown in Illinois

It was a busy Tuesday on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Event Reports page: 1. Yesterday morning, a fire broke was reported in the Plant Vital Battery Room for Unit 2 at the Catawba nuclear power plant in South Carolina. The fire broke … Continue reading

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Event Reports: Safety display systems out at Georgia nuke, manual reactor scram at Mississippi plant

A couple of items from today’s NRC Event Reports: 1. The Hatch nuclear power plant in Georgia reported to the NRC that a hard drive crash on Saturday had rendered inoperable both the Safety Parameter Display System (SPDS) and the Emergency … Continue reading

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Event Reports: Fitness for Duty, a maintenance error and a bad seal

Three items from this morning’s NRC Event Reports page: 1. On Friday morning, an employee supervisor at the Grand Gulf nuclear power plant failed a random Fitness for Duty screening. Test results showed the presence of prohibited drugs in the … Continue reading

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