Quad Cities Trips Due to Energizing a Switchyard Ground
Although this event was initially reported in Event Report 47799 on April 2, 2012, this subsequent report provides further details and some related safety issues. To date it is unknown why Event Report…
Kewaunee redundant safety equipment rendered inoperable due to through wall leak
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…
NOTICE OF UNUSUAL EVENT DUE TO DUAL UNIT LOSS OF OFFSITE POWER AT CATAWBA NUCLEAR PLANT
Event Number: 47805 – NOTICE OF UNUSUAL EVENT DUE TO DUAL UNIT LOSS OF OFFSITE POWER At 2003 EDT on 4/4/12 Catawba Unit 1 automatically tripped due to a loss of offsite power….
Fire at Catawba Nuclear Power Plant in vital battery room area
Event Number: 47795 “At 0624 EDT on 04/02/2012 the control room was notified by a plant operator that there was a fire in the plant vital battery room area on Unit 2. The…
SECOND Loss of Offsite Power at the Byron Nuclear Power Plant Since January 23 – No Inclement Weather
For the second time in a month, a power interruption caused operators at Byron Generating Station to declare an “unusual event,” officials said in a news release sent around 10 p.m. Tuesday. Byron…
Brunswick Unit 1 and 2 Electrical Bus Problem Causes Loss of Half of Emergency Cooling Systems AND a Plant SCRAM
Brunswick events number 47687 and 47690 On 2/22/2012 at approximately 7 PM eastern time, the Brunswick site experienced a loss of balance of plant (BOP) Electrical Bus “Common C”. Several important loads that…
NRC says 11 nuclear plants need to provide information on effects of irradiation on nuclear fuel
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has requested information from 11 nuclear power plants, mainly concerning analyses of the effects of irradiation on nuclear fuel’s physical properties under certain postulated accident conditions. The agency is…
Iowa Nuke construction bill would add $800 annual increase for ratepayers
House File 561, a bill that would allow an investor-owned utility to charge ratepayers for a proposed nuclear power plant construction project’s upfront costs even if the reactors are never built, amounts to…
Developing story on leak at Hanford Central Waste Complex
NBC Right Now has learned there’s been a leak at the Central Waste Complex site, a Department of Energy facility at Hanford. It was discovered on February 6th during a routine survey done…
A look at the year cost estimates for the first two Vogtle Nuclear Units over the years
The Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, also known as Plant Vogtle, is a 2-unit nuclear power plant located in Burke County, near Waynesboro, Georgia. When the two original nuclear units at Plant Vogtle were planned, the total cost estimate…
Why are unusually high numbers of reactor operators failing licensing tests at Plant Vogtle?
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission wants Southern Nuclear to explain why an unusually high number of reactor operators failed their initial licensing tests at Plant Vogtle last year. “They are doing a root…
Unusual sequence of events revolving around Wolf Creek Offsife Power Loss
Power Reactor Event Number: 47590 Facility: WOLF CREEK Region: 4 State: KS Unit: [1] [ ] [ ] RX Type: [1] W-4-LP NRC Notified By: TERRY DAMASHEK HQ OPS Officer: HOWIE CROUCH Notification Date: 01/13/2012 Notification…
Clinton Nuclear Power Plant SCRAM due to high reactor steam dome pressure
Power Reactor Event Number: 47489 Facility: CLINTON Region: 3 State: IL Unit: [1] [ ] [ ] RX Type: [1] GE-6 NRC Notified By: KEN LEFFEL HQ OPS Officer: STEVE SANDIN Notification Date: 11/29/2011 Notification Time:…
Nuclear Engineer shares concerns about Brunswick Nuclear Leak
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission will begin a special inspection at Progress Energy’s Brunswick-2 unit in North Carolina after the utility said Friday the reactor pressure vessel’s lid was not adequately tightened when…
Nuclear Accident Committee work to develop common guidance
EBMT News, August 2011 Report following meeting of EBMT Nuclear Accident Committee, London 9th June 2011 As a consequence of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant incident, a group hosted by the EBMT NAC…
United States Sent Undisclosed ‘Nuclear Weapon Package’ to Japan 5 Days Before Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Memorial
On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 AM, the Atomic Bomb ”Little Boy” was dropped on Hiroshima by an American B-29 bomber, directly killing an estimated 80,000 people. By the end of the year, injury…
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May 17, 2012
Dee — Perfectly written, Linda!
Last year, Europe invested more in SOLAR Energy than any other energy source, and Renewable Energy has created...
May 17, 2012
Thanks, Enformable — Great reporting!
Remember how complicit the U.S. media was in downplaying the radiation from Japan?
I've never seen so many synonyms of...
May 17, 2012
Russell Lowes — Hi Linda,
Your article is appreciated. I want to point out that nuclear is not a good way in which...
May 17, 2012
misitu — What worries me more is the gabions in the picture. Gabions are chicken wire baskets of stones often used in...
May 16, 2012
CaptD — This ought to wake up some folks in Somerset!
What could go wrong?
THE NPP's RISK GAME:
~ Tornado strike?
~ Earthquake?
~ Human error?
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