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Category Archives: Plant shutdowns
Event Reports: New York nuke shuts itself down following possible maintenance error
Suppose you’re driving down the freeway and your car suddenly loses power and the airbags deploy. You call a tow truck and have your car towed to a garage. Two hours later, the mechanic tells you that there is nothing … Continue reading
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: Blown fuse takes down New York reactor
Today’s NRC Event Notification Reports page contained a report from New York’s Nine Mile Point nuclear plant. Yesterday afternoon, technicians were performing testing on the facility’s Unit 2 reactor when a short in the control circuit caused a blown fuse. … Continue reading
Event Reports: A New Jersey reactor scrams when the unit is offline, and yet another drunken operator
From today’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Event Notification Reports page: 1. The Reactor Protection System for Unit 1 at the New Jersey’s Oyster Creek nuclear power plant activated unexpectedly yesterday evening. This came as a surprise because the reactor was offline … Continue reading
Posted in Drunk at work, Event Reports, Fitness for Duty, Limerick, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Oyster Creek, Plant shutdowns
Tagged Event Reports, Fitness for Duty, Limerick, New Jersey, nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Oyster Creek, Pennsylvania, reactor scram, United S, United States
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Event Reports: Two reactor scrams, problems with Fitness for Duty system and Californians crazy from the heat
Some items from today’s NRC Event Notification Reports page: 1. Last Friday afternoon, operators at the Clinton nuclear power plant in Illinois were ramping up the Unit 1 reactor from an outage when the reactor pressure vessel water level began … Continue reading
Posted in Clinton, Diablo Canyon, Event Reports, Fitness for Duty, North Anna, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Oyster Creek, Plant shutdowns, Surry
Tagged California, Clinton, Diablo Canyon, Event Reports, Illinois, New Jersey, North Anna, nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Oyster Creek, Surry, United States, Virginia
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Florida reactor may have shut down last night
I have a pretty regimented process for determining what’s happened with the nation’s nuclear power plants overnight. It usually starts with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Event Notification Reports, to see what the individual plants have reported to the NRC. Then, … Continue reading
Posted in Event Reports, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Plant shutdowns, Saint Lucie
Tagged Florida, nuclear power, Saint Lucie, United States
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Correction: Hope Creek reactor shut itself down twice in a week, not twice in a day
Okay, sometimes I work faster than I read. It appears that the reactor at New Jersey’s Hope Creek facility malfunctioned on Thursday, not on Sunday as I previously reported. Here’s the story from today’s Delaware Online: A malfunction signal as … Continue reading
Weird Event Report from Diablo Canyon
On July 10, 2013, the Unit 2 reactor at Diablo Canyon in California shut itself down following a a voltage irregularity from the unit’s diesel generator. According to the report sent to the NRC: The preliminary cause of the differential … Continue reading
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