Category Archives: Quad Cities

Event Reports: Loss of offsite power, seismic vulnerability, a dropped control element assembly and another and another Fitness for Duty violation

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Robert Singleton

This week in nuclear power kicked on Hallloween: 1. Friday afternoon, the Diablo Canyon nuclear power facility in California experienced an unplanned activation of all six of the plant’s emergency diesel generators when a thunderstorm knocked out offsite power to the station. … Continue reading →

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Event Reports: A toxic gas release in Ohio, diesel generators inoperable in New York, a defect in the reactor coolant system in North Carolina, a fire in the turbine building in Illinois and yet another open door in New York

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Robert Singleton

A number of items from today’s Event Notification Report page on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission website: 1. Yesterday afternoon, the Perry nuclear power plant in Ohio declared an Unusual Event after Trichloroethylene was detected in the Off-gas building. The leak … Continue reading →

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Breaking news: Fire in turbine building shuts down one reactor at Illinois nuke; partial evacuation of plant ordered

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Robert Singleton

The Quad-City Times reported this afternoon: Three hours after a possible fire put the Cordova nuclear plant on alert, station officials were evaluating whether to terminate the emergency status. Workers at Exelon Nuclear’s Quad-Cities Generating Station noticed smoke in a … Continue reading →

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Event Reports: An electrical issue shuts down a reactor in New Hampshire, a leak causes an Illinois reactor to coast to a stop, a Louisiana reactor loses emergency sirens and an earthquake hits a shuttered nuke in California

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Robert Singleton

Some items from today’s Event Notification Report: 1. Early this morning, as operators were ramping down the sole reactor at New Hampshire’s Seabrook nuclear power plant for refueling, the reactor shut itself down and initiated an emergency feedwater activation. The … Continue reading →

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Event Reports: New York nuke workers figure out how to get around random Fitness for Duty tests

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Robert Singleton

An interesting item from Monday’s NRC Event Notification Reports page: The FitzPatrick nuclear power plant in New York reported: “A significant Fitness for Duty (FFD) programmatic vulnerability was discovered during an NRC inspection. A potential exists that some members of … Continue reading →

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Event Reports: Reactor glitches in Pennsylvania and Illinois

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Robert Singleton

A couple of items from today’s NRC Event Notification page: 1. Late last night, operators at the Limerick nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania manually scrammed the Unit 1 reactor following failure of the unit’s Electro Hydraulic Control system. The EHC … Continue reading →

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Exelon threatens to close three Illinois nukes unless the state pays them not to

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Robert Singleton

On the surface, it sounds like good news. Crain’s Chicago Business reported today: Company executives and lobbyists have told lawmakers and other interested parties that three of the six nukes Exelon operates (Byron, Clinton and Quad Cities) are at risk … Continue reading →

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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

Posted on December 18, 2013 by Robert Singleton

  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 →

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NRC Event Reports: A leak, a bad weld and more potential fire problems

Posted on November 9, 2013 by Robert Singleton

Today’s NRC Event Reports page contained three interesting items today: 1. The Quad Cities nuclear power plant in Illinois reported a drain line leak in its Unit 2 reactor, rendering the unit’s High Pressure Coolant Injection system inoperable. Not to … Continue reading →

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Event Reports: A scram in Arkansas, tritium in the water in Louisiana and a drunken supervisor in Illinois

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Robert Singleton

Some incidents from this week’s NRC Event Reports page: 1. Unit 2 at the Arkansas Nuclear power plant shut down automatically from 100 per cent power Wednesday morning. The shutdown resulted from increased pressure in the Reactor Coolant System. According to this … Continue reading →

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