Tag Archives: New Jersey

Update on Event Reports: Oyster Creek also lost offsite power

Posted on October 31, 2012 by

I had previously reported that the Nine Mile Point nuclear power plant in New York lost offsite power to one of its reactors during Hurricane Sandy. This morning’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission Event Reports indicate that the same thing happened to … Continue reading →

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Event Reports: Reactor problems apparently drive nuclear supervisors to drugs

Posted on May 3, 2012 by

(This is what happens when I get busy trying to earn a living and don’t check the NRC Event Reports every day.) Here’s a summary of some of the incidents reported to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the first three … Continue reading →

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Event Reports: A reactor trip in New Jersey, bad welds and an earthquake in Virginia and continued Fitness for Duty problem at nuke construction site in Georgia

Posted on March 26, 2012 by

Four items from today’s NRC Event Reports: 1. On Friday afternoon, the Unit 2 reactor at the Salem nuclear power plant in New Jersey experienced an automatic reactor trip. During the incident, two reactor coolant pumps were unavailable, due to a pair … Continue reading →

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Event Report: Stuck valve knocks out safety system at New Jersey nuke

Posted on January 12, 2012 by

During maintenance testing yesterday, operators at the Hope Creek nuclear power plant in New Jersey discovered that the turbine governor valve for the Unit 1 reactor would not close, “rendering the speed and flow control system for the turbine inoperable.” … Continue reading →

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Event Report: New Jersey nuke reports discharge to Delaware River

Posted on December 29, 2011 by

The Hope Creek nuclear power plant in New Jersey reported to the NRC this morning that a motor operated valve in the station’s Service Water System had failed to close, resulting in the discharge of seventeen gallons of sodium hypoclorite … Continue reading →

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Event Reports: Leaking coolant in New York and other little disasters‏

Posted on December 12, 2011 by

Here’s the Monday morning wrapup, compiled from reports submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission: 1. On Friday morning, control room personnel at the Nine Mile Point nuclear power plant in New York “received alert alarms for containment monitoring particulate channels … Continue reading →

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Event Reports: Three workers receive radiation exposure, and a New York reactor shuts down

Posted on October 12, 2011 by

Two incidents from today’s NRC Event Reports: 1. Saturday morning, three workers at a Johnson & Johnson facility in Raritan, New Jersey were attempting to load Cobalt-60 gamma ray sources into an irradiator when an eight-inch source became dislodged and … Continue reading →

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Hurricane knocked out some emergency sirens at three nukes

Posted on August 29, 2011 by

According to this morning’s NRC Event Reports page, three nuclear power plants had problems with their emergency sirens during Hurricane Irene. Calvert Cliffs in Maryland reported that 44 sirens were out of operation due to loss of power. Peach Bottom … Continue reading →

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Irene knocks out nation’s oldest nuke

Posted on August 27, 2011 by

Bloomberg Businessweek reported this in the last hour: Hurricane Irene knocked out electricity to more than 900,000 customers from South Carolina to Maryland as the storm carved its way north along the U.S. East Coast, prompting Exelon Corp.’s Oyster Creek … Continue reading →

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NRC Event Reports — Friday, April 22

Posted on April 23, 2011 by

The Salem nuclear plant in New Jersey was forced to scram the Unit 1 reactor after one of its circulating water pumps became fouled by grass in the intake. When this pump shut down, it resulted in another operating pump … Continue reading →

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