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Category Archives: Monticello
Event Reports: False earthquake report in Minnesota and a false start on maintenance in Connecticut
Two items from today’s Event Notification Report page on the NRC website: 1. Friday afternoon, the Seismic Monitor at Minnesota’s Prairie Island nuclear power plant indicated an earthquake had occurred. Prairie Island operators determined that the alarm was invalid, based … Continue reading
Event Reports: A reactor shuts itself down in Mississippi, a Fitness for Duty report from Connecticut and another day, another open door
From today’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Event Notification Report page: 1. On Sunday, the sole reactor at the Grand Gulf nuclear power plant in Mississippi shut itself down following a turbine trip. Grand Gulf’s report stressed that all the shutdown systems … Continue reading
Posted in Event Reports, Fitness for Duty, Grand Gulf, Loss of Containment, Millstone, Monticello, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Reactor problems
Tagged Connecticut, Fitness for Duty, Grand Gulf, loss of containment, Millstone, Minnesota, Mississippi, Monticello, nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, reactor shutdown, scram, United States
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Do you live near one of these 32 reactors? GE Hitachi still not sure they can be shut down safely after an earthquake
GE Hitachi (GEH) posted an update on the NRC website today: “GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) provided an update to its guidance and supporting evaluations that were reported in MFN 08-420 R0 on December 19, 2008 and MFN 10-245 R5 … Continue reading
Posted in Browns Ferry, Brunswick, Clinton, Columbia, Cooper, Dresden, Duane Arnold, Event Reports, Fermi, FitzPatrick, Fukushima, Grand Gulf, Hatch, Hope Creek, LaSalle, Limerick, Monticello, Nine Mile Point, Oyster Creek, Peach Bottom, Perry, Pilgrim, Quad Cities, River Bend, Vermont Yankee
Tagged Browns Ferry, Brunswick, Clinton, Columbia, Cooper, Dresden, Duane Arnold, Event Reports, Fermi, FitzPatrick, Grand Gulf, Hatch, Hope Creek, LaSalle, Limerick, Monticello, Nine Mile Point, nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Oyster Creek, Peach Bottom, Perry, Pilgrim, Quad Cities, River Bend, United States, Vermont Yankee
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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
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
Posted in Comanche Peak, Event Reports, Fire, Fitness for Duty, FitzPatrick, Monticello, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Perry, Plant shutdowns, Reactor problems, Salem, Susquehanna, Turkey Point, Vogtle
Tagged Comanche Peak, fire, FitzPatrick, Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Monticello, nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Ohio, Pennsylvania.New York, Perry, radiation, reactor shutdown, Salem, Susquehanna, texas, Turkey Point, United States, Vogtle
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Event Reports: Human errors, tritium releases and a hydrogen leak
Some items from today’s NRC Event Reports: 1. Sometimes safety systems can be overcome by human error. Early yesterday morning, a technician left two doors open in the Unit 2 reactor building at the Dresden nuclear power plant in … Continue reading
Update on Minnesota reactor shutdown
Late Saturday, there was an automatic reactor shutdown at the Monticello nuclear power plant in Minnesota, with an accompanying report of high temperatures in the discharge canal. A supplemental Event Report to the NRC this morning says that the temperature … Continue reading
Event Reports: Two reactor scrams, a faulty safety system and something missing in spent fuel pool
Four items from this morning’s NRC Event Reports: 1. Late Saturday, operators were performing valve bypass testing on Unit 1 at the Monticello nuclear power plant in Minnesota, when the reactor scrammed and the Reactor Protective System activated on low … Continue reading
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