Category Archives: Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Plant leaking radioactive water into Lake Michigan

Posted on May 10, 2013 by

The Palisades nuclear power plant has been closed since Sunday with a radioactive water leak. The South Bend Tribune reported yesterday: The entry into Lake Michigan of 79 gallons of what officials at the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant and the … Continue reading →

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NRC blocks expansion of Texas nuke over ownership issue

Posted on May 3, 2013 by

The Dallas Morning News reported last Thursday: Plans to build two new reactors at the South Texas Project nuclear facility outside Bay City hit a road block Tuesday. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ruled that a partnership between NRG and … Continue reading →

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Lightning strike knocks out off-site power at Illinois nuke; plant’s two units were on emergency diesel generators overnight

Posted on April 20, 2013 by

The Associated Press reported on Thursday, April 18: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says a lightning strike knocked out power to a northern Illinois nuclear plant for several hours Wednesday night, but emergency generators kicked in to keep the site … Continue reading →

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Nuclear evacuation plans may not be adequate, says new GAO report

Posted on April 14, 2013 by

The Associated Press reported April 10: Regulators and congressional investigators clashed Wednesday over a new report warning that in the event of an accident at a nuclear plant, panicking residents from outside the official evacuation zone might jam the roads … Continue reading →

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Accident at Arkansas Nuclear kills one worker, injures eight others

Posted on April 5, 2013 by

The Dow Jones Newswire reported April 4: Entergy Corp. said it is making plans to restart one of its units at an Arkansas nuclear-power plant, a process that is expected to take several weeks, after the unit shut down automatically … Continue reading →

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Event Reports: Reactor scrams in Pennsylvania, New York, Texas and New Jersey; excess radiation in Minnesota, a fire in New York, a toxic gas release in Ohio and a drunken supervisor in Florida

Posted on December 1, 2012 by

This post is kind of lengthy, as I haven’t been able to get around to looking at Event Reports for a couple of weeks. Here’s the news: 1. Early in the morning of Friday, November 9, operators at the Susquehanna … Continue reading →

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Event Report: Michigan reactor shut down

Posted on November 8, 2012 by

Yesterday morning, operators at the Fermi nuclear power plant manually shut down the Unit 2 reactor after discovering “hydrogen gas in-leakage into the stator water cooling system from the main turbine generator.” Fermi officials desribed the incident as “uncomplicated” while noting … Continue reading →

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Event Report: More problems at Nine Mile Point

Posted on November 7, 2012 by

Problems continue with the Unit 1 reactor at the Nine Mile Point nuclear plant in New York. The unit had a fire two weeks ago and an automatic reactor shutdown last weekend. Early yesterday morning, a feedwater valve opened unexpectedly. This resulted in … Continue reading →

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Event Report update: Florida Fitness for Duty report

Posted on November 6, 2012 by

Yesterday, I told you that a contract supervisor at the Crystal River nuclear power plant in Florida had failed a for-cause Fitness for Duty screening. I incorrectly assumed that this meant the employee had failed a blood test after showing … Continue reading →

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(Not-quite-final) Victory in Maryland nuke expansion

Posted on November 5, 2012 by

At first blush, it looks as if the opponents of the expansion of the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in Maryland have won. Foes of a third reactor for the Maryland facility had raised the issue of foreign ownership in … Continue reading →

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