Category Archives: Pilgrim

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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Update: Pilgrim incident involved leak of radioactive steam

Posted on December 28, 2011 by

The Pilgrim nuclear plant in Massachusetts had to be closed down today due to a defective steam relief valve. Later news reports said that the incident involved a leak of radioactive steam. As the Boston Globe reported: The Pilgrim Nuclear … Continue reading →

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Event Reports: Maintenance complications in Florida, a reactor scram in Louisiana, human error and a halon release in South Carolina and a faulty valve in Massachusetts

Posted on December 27, 2011 by

A number of items appeared on the NRC Event Reports today following the long holiday weekend: 1. On December 6, the Turkey Point nuclear power plant in Florida began work on modifications to the plant’s Technical Support System (TSC.) The system … Continue reading →

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Event Report: Massachusetts nuke declares safety system inoperable

Posted on December 1, 2011 by

Yesterday afternoon, workers wer performing maintenance on the sole reactor at the Pilgrim nuclear power plant in Massachusetts when they discovered that a valve in the High Pressure Coolant Injection (HPCI) system failed to open. According to the Event Report … Continue reading →

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