Category Archives: Prairie Island

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: Tritium leak at Virginia nuke and a reactor scram in Minnesota

Posted on February 22, 2012 by

Two items from this morning’s NRC Event Reports: 1. The North Anna nuclear power plant notified the NRC that it had received a laboratory report from a water sample submitted on Feb. 17 from an on-site test well. The report … Continue reading →

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Event Report: Minnesota nuke leaked condensate containing tritium following pump failure

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

Yesterday afternoon, a condensate return pump failed at the Prairie Island nuclear power plant in Minnesota, releasing 27 gallons water. Prairie Island released an unusually detailed report of what the water contained: “The release contained the following chemicals: 1) 11.2 … Continue reading →

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Event Report: Minnesota nuke leaked tritium late last year

Posted on February 2, 2012 by

After reviewing an incident from the last week of November, 2011, the Prairie Island nuclear power plant decided that the seriousness of the accident required an Event Report to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Prairie Island reported that 3,900 gallons of … Continue reading →

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Update: Alert terminated at Minnesota nuke

Posted on January 6, 2012 by

Officials at the Prairie Island nuclear power plant in Minnesota have terminated the alert that they issued yesterday after a ruptured pipe leaked sodium hypochlorite into the facility’s chlorine house. Fumes from the spilled chemicals were determined to be Immediately … Continue reading →

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Event Report: Chemical spill at Minnesota nuke results in Alert

Posted on January 5, 2012 by

Early this morning, a pipe ruptured in the chlorine house at the Prairie Island nuclear power plant in Minnesota. An as-yet-unspecified amount of sodium hypochlorite spilled and was contained within the building. According to the Event Report: “”The spill resulted … Continue reading →

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