Power Reactor Event Number: 47870 Facility: FORT CALHOUN Region: 4 State: NE Unit: [1] [ ] [ ] RX Type: (1) CE NRC Notified By: ROBERT KROS HQ OPS Officer: HOWIE CROUCH Notification Date: 04/27/2012 Notification Time: 16:02 [ET] Event Date: 04/27/2012 Event Time: 13:45 [CDT] Last Update Date: 04/27/2012 Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY 10 CFR Section: 26.719 […]
Power Reactor Event Number: 47869 Facility: TURKEY POINT Region: 2 State: FL Unit: [3] [4] [ ] RX Type: [3] W-3-LP,[4] W-3-LP NRC Notified By: ADRIAN GONZALEZ HQ OPS Officer: VINCE KLCO Notification Date: 04/27/2012 Notification Time: 13:19 [ET] Event Date: 04/27/2012 Event Time: 08:00 [EDT] Last Update Date: 04/27/2012 Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY 10 CFR Section: […]
Event Number: 47871 Kewaunee BOTH TRAINS OF RESIDUAL HEAT REMOVAL DECLARED INOPERABLE “At 1742 EDT on 04/27/2012, while in Mode 5, both trains of RHR (Residual Heat Removal) were declared inoperable due to a through wall leak on a socket welded connection of ASME code class piping. Currently, with both trains of RHR in service […]
In the first year after the March 11th disaster, the Shimane Nuclear Power Plant has worked hard to ensure local residents that nuclear safety is the top priority at the plant. Months after the March disaster, workers at the Shimane Nuclear Power Plant submitted an updated pledge of allegiance to upholding the standards of nuclear […]
From: Breskovic, Clarence To: Breskovic, Clarence Subject: Background Paper on BWR Reactors for non-Nuclear Engineers – Fukushima reactor schematics, containment, etc. Date: Friday, March 11, 2011 1:05:32 PM Attachments: ANSN BWR Paperpdf I attached a BWR reactor background paper developed by the Asian Nuclear Safety Network. This might help people who are not nuclear engineers understand the […]
Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Srikumar Banerjee confirmed that all possible efforts are still being made to bring both reactors at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant to operational status as soon as possible. The AEC also announced that the unit 1 RPV will be loaded with nuclear fuel in the coming days after inspections are carried […]
TEPCO submitted a new restructuring plan to the central Japanese government industry minister Yukio Edano on Friday. The utility is hoping to raise its power rates for households by around 10 percent, cut costs worth nearly 41 billion dollars over the next decade and restart its nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture in or after […]
From:Breskovic, Clarence To:Breskovic, Clarence Subject:Japan: Fukushima 1 & 2 cooling system problems Date:Friday, March 11, 2011 6:13:22 AM According to NHK TV news (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) the Fukishima 1 & 2 reactors are experiencing reactor cooling problems after diesel generator failures but also saying there is no cause for alarm even though the government has declared a […]
Japans Atomic Energy Commission released new estimates of the cost of reprocessing current stockpiles of spent nuclear fuel generated from the nuclear power plants this week. As of September 2011, Japan claimed nearly 14,200 tons of spent fuel being stored onsite at Japan’s 54 reactors. The newly released estimates included a 5 trillion yen price […]
Fessenheim is France’s oldest operating nuclear plant, first brought online in 1977, and has long faced ongoing debates about the adequacy of the seismic safety of the plant, which only escalated after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Unit 2, which resumed output last month after halting for almost a year for safety checks, was operating normally when a fire […]
Japanese Authorities have alerted the public of measures taken to prevent contaminated fish caught over 180 kilometers (111.8 miles) from the Fukushima Daiichi plant from being shipped and sold in public markets. Chiba prefectural officials say that silver crucian carp caught in the famous Tone river contained 110 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram, and say […]
Newly released results of nuclide analysis of contamination in fish and shellfish within a 5 km radius of Fukushima Daiichi, has revealed concentrations of Cesium 134 and Cesium 137 in excess of the national standards. Standard National Value (after April 1, 2012) Cs-134+Cs-137: 100Bq/kg Source: TEPCO Related Articles on Page 2… [adsense]
On Monday, a report by three Japanese utilities said that the Tomari nuclear plant in Hokkaido and the Tsuruga plant in Fukui Prefecture are at risk of earthquakes that exceed their designed quake-resistance parameters. A day later on Tuesday, Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) suggested the possibility of an old fault “fracture zone” […]
Euronews reports that a group of hunger strikers camped outside the Ministry of Economy in central Toyko for the last week are protesting against the Japanese government’s plans to restart two of the country’s nuclear reactors. One demonstrator said he wanted last year’s Fukushima disaster never to be repeated again. Related Articles on Page 2… […]
The total loss of power at Fukushima Daiichi after the March 11th earthquake was worsened by a receiving circuit breaker of Okuma Line which despite being deemed “quake-prone” in 1978 remained installed and in use for more than 30 years. The circuit breaker at the plant was located at the Switchyard, collapsed in the magnitude […]
The Seacost Online reported on a meeting this week between NextEra Energy, operators of the Seabrook nuclear plant, and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Monday in Bethesda, Md., in which the utility reported that the cause of concrete degradation at Seabrook Station is more pervasive than originally stated, has already brought some of the […]
The amounts of contaminated water at Fukushima Daiichi have been increasing tremendously from groundwater and precipitation over the last year; mixing with the highly radioactive coolant water which is accumulating in the reactor buildings, turbine buildings and basements of the complex after leaking from the destroyed reactor vessels. Koydo News reports TEPCO announced it began […]
An April 19th report by the EPA Inspector General’s Office casts more doubt on an already embattled radiation monitoring system in the United States after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. This week in retort, the EPA stated emphatically that it stands by its radiation detection work in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. […]
In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japanese officials from Osaka have said that a system should be put in place so that power companies form safety agreements with prefectural governments that are located within 100 kilometers of nuclear plants. Hashimoto and Matsui also called on the central government to establish the structure needed […]
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency will request the operators of the Tomari plant in Hokkaido, Tsuruga and Monju plants in Fukui Prefecture and the Shimane plant in Shimane, to re-examine the effects of seismic activities that it says became more active after the March 2011 earthquake in northern Japan. NISA says the risk has […]