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Category Archives: Point Beach
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
(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
Posted in Drunk at work, Event Reports, Fire, Fitness for Duty, Plant shutdowns, Point Beach, Prairie Island, Reactor problems, Sequoyah, Waterford
Tagged drunk at work, Emergency diesel generators, Fitness for Duty, Louisiana, Minnesota, Point Beach, Prairie Island, Sequoyah, Tennessee, Waterford, Wisconsin
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Event Reports: Rad waste casks fail to meet standards, operator fails Fitness for Duty test in Wisconsin
Two items from this morning’s NRC Event Reports page: 1. Energy Solutions notified the Nuclear Regulatory that two types of shipping cask that it provides to the nuclear industry failed to meet technical specifications for some acciddent scenarios. Energy … Continue reading
Posted in Drunk at work, Energy Solutions, Event Reports, Fitness for Duty, Laguna Verde, Low-level radioactive waste, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Perma-Fix, Point Beach
Tagged Energy Solutions, Event Reports, Fitness for Duty, low level radioactive waste, nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Point Beach, United States, Wisconsin
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Event Reports: Toxic gas in Wisconsin nuke, an oil spill in Michigan, a dead bald eagle in Virginia and a reactor scram at another Michigan plant
Four items from today’s NRC Event Reports: 1. Wednesday evening, the Point Beach nuclear power plant in Wisconsin declared an Alert due to toxic gas in a vital area room. During a maintenace run on the plant’s emergency diesel generator, exhaust … Continue reading
Event Reports: Bearing failure in Michigan, loss of offsite power in Wisconsin
A couple of items from today’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission Event Reports today: 1. Friday afternoon, operators at the Cook nuclear power plant in Michigan manually started the Unit 1 Auxiliary Feedwater Pumps after one of the pumps suffered a bearing failure. … Continue reading
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