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Monthly Archives: January 2014
Update: Beaver Valley shutdown may have been weather-related
As I told you earlier today, Unit 1 at the Beaver Valley nuclear plant in Pennsylvania is currently offline following a main transformer trip. Beaver County’s TimesOnline added the following details: FirstEnergy officials said they were investigating whether recent cold … Continue reading
Event Reports: Two reactor scrams and a siren problem
Some items from today’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Event Notification Report page: 1. Yesterday afternoon, the Unit 1 reactor at the Beaver Valley nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania shut down unexpectedly from 100 per cent power. Beaver Valley says … Continue reading
Event Reports: Leftover parts in Minnesota and a false alarm in Pennsylvania
A couple of items from today’s the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Event Notification Report page: 1. On New Year’s Eve, the Prairie Island nuclear power plant informed the NRC that it had “discovered that multiple upper lateral support shims and bumpers … Continue reading
Event Report: Radioactive package delivered to wrong address
I learned a long time ago that sometimes the worst thing you can do to a person is to quote them accurately. Here’s a post from yesterday’s Event Notification Report page on the NRC website: AGREEMENT STATE REPORT – PACKAGE … Continue reading
Event Report: Transportation accident (You know. The thing that never happens.)
On Friday, November 22, 2013, a truck carrying two radiography cameras crashed near Andrews, Texas. The initial report on the NRC website provided few details: “On November 22, 2013, the Agency [Texas Department of State Health Services] received information from … Continue reading
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