Category Archives: Plant shutdowns

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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New problem at Fukushima: Groundwater leaking into contaminated plant and how to dispose of it

Posted on May 4, 2013 by

 The New York Times reported April 29: Two years after a triple meltdown that grew into the world’s second worst nuclear disaster, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is faced with a new crisis: a flood of highly radioactive wastewater … 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 Reports: Plant shutdowns in Michigan and New York and a Fitness for Duty Report from Florida

Posted on November 5, 2012 by

1. Sunday afternoon, operators at the Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan declared a primary coolant loop to be inoperable due to a steam leak. Since the leak could not be investigated with the reactor running, the plant entered a Technical … Continue reading →

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Event Report update: Comanche Peak reactor scrammed

Posted on November 2, 2012 by

Yesterday, I told you that Unit 1 at the Comanche Peak nuclear power plant in north Texas experienced an unexpected activation of the reactor’s emergency systems. Despite the problems, the plant continued to operate the reactor at 100 per cent … Continue reading →

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Event Reports: Reactors shut down in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Tennessee, and another alcohol-at-work incident; Minnesota incident involves small fires in both Emergency Diesel Generators

Posted on August 17, 2012 by

(Just a note on the above illustration: It’s from a gallery of Power Plant Trading Cards at: http://www.industcards.com/. I don’t make this stuff up, I just make fun of it.) Some items from this week’s NRC Event Reports page: 1. … Continue reading →

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Event Reports: A scram in Arkansas, tritium in the water in Louisiana and a drunken supervisor in Illinois

Posted on August 10, 2012 by

Some incidents from this week’s NRC Event Reports page: 1. Unit 2 at the Arkansas Nuclear power plant shut down automatically from 100 per cent power Wednesday morning. The shutdown resulted from increased pressure in the Reactor Coolant System. According to this … Continue reading →

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Maryland nuke shut down following leak in monitoring system

Posted on July 25, 2012 by

SoMdNews.com just reported: A leak from a monitoring instrument line on Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 resulted in the second shutdown of the unit in the same week. The leak from a reactor coolant pump differential-pressure sensing line, … Continue reading →

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