Officials from the Palisades nuclear power plant in Michigan operated by Entergy have confirmed that 22 workers have been placed on paid leave after it was found that fire inspection records had been falsified. One of the duties of security officers at some nuclear power plants is to conduct routine checks to ensure that there […]
Last Monday Entergy announced that they would shutdown the FitzPatrick nuclear power plant sometime in early 2017, because it was not financially profitable anymore and was costing the company some $60 million per year. Entergy officials have confirmed that they will seek to defer the decommissioning of the FitzPatrick nuclear power plant under the […]
Entergy officials have confirmed that late 2016 or early 2017 the Fitzpatrick nuclear power plant will be shut down instead of refueled and brought back online. The plant was scheduled for refueling in September 2016 but has been losing Entergy money and can no longer be kept afloat. Wall Street analyst Julien Dumoulin-Smith of UBS […]
Updated October 13th, 2015: Entergy has announced that the Pilgrim nuclear power station will close down no later than June 2019. Officials of the Pilgrim nuclear power plant have publicly announced that the financial costs stemming from mandated safety improvements and reforms required by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission may prove too costly to keep the […]
Around 12:30 on Monday a licensed reactor operator at the Pilgrim nuclear power plant near Boston violated the Fitness-for-Duty policy. The operator was denied access to the plant and the resident NRC inspector was informed. Source: NRC Event Notifications
During a June 25th meeting of the Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel, a stream of comments were made by officials from the State of Vermont expressing frustration and impatience with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and its decommissioning process. Nuclear power plants each establish a decommissioning trust fund which is used to pay for decommissioning work […]
Before the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011 the nuclear energy industry in the United States was optimistic about the future. Nearly four years later, the industry is sinking from its own economic weight and more nuclear power plants risk getting shut down — not because of opposition from environmental organizations, but rather due to a […]
A non-licensed supervisor at the Fitzpatrick nuclear power plant in New York had their access to the site revoked on Friday. The supervisor tested positive for drugs during a random fitness for duty test. Source: NRC Event Notifications
A employee supervisor at the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant in New York failed a for-cause fitness for duty test on Monday. The licensee, Entergy Corporation, has terminated the employee’s access to the facility. Fitness for duty tests are administered either randomly, in a lottery-style system where “winners” get to report to the medical office […]
On Wednesday, a employee supervisor at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant failed a random fitness for duty test and confirmed positive for alcohol. The licensee terminated the employee’s access to the plant. Source: NRC Event Notifications
In July of 2013, we shared a story about Daniel Wilson, a former supervisor at the Indian Point nuclear power plant, who was arrested for deliberately falsifying critical safety records and lying to federal regulators. Wilson had hid results of tests that showed that the quality of fuel in backup tanks, which would be used […]
Entergy Corporation announced that it will permanently shut-down and decommission the single unit boiling water reactor at the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station at the end of its current fuel cycle. After recently ending a legal battle with Vermont, the decision to shut down the state’s only nuclear power plant was based on a variety […]
Entergy announced on Tuesday that a former supervisor, who worked at the Indian Point nuclear power plant north of New York City for twenty-nine years, had been arrested for deliberately falsifying critical safety records and lying to federal regulators last year. The utility said that Daniel Wilson, age 57, who was in charge of ensuring […]
Congressman Fred Upton is demanding accountability and a permanent fix to the leaking tank at the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant on Lake Michigan, and says that he is “outraged” by the announced leak that escaped into the Great Lake over the weekend. “This situation is not acceptable and demands full accountability,” Upton said in a […]
The Palisades nuclear power plant shut down on Sunday morning, just after 1 am, due to a leak from the Safety Injection Refueling Water Tank. Last year, the plant was shut down due to leaks from the SIRW tank, after the leaking water was found to be seeping into the control room, but was allowed […]
A licensed reactor operator at the Grand Gulf Nuclear Power Plant in Mississippi tested positive test for illegal drugs during a random fitness-for-duty test. The operator has had access to the GE BWR reactor site terminated. Source: NRC Event Notifications
Around 07:50 on Easter Sunday morning, an accident at the Arkansas Nuclear Power Plant not only killed one worker and injured others it also left the Unit 1 reactor without offsite power. Workers were using the Unit 1 turbine temporary lift device to move the Main Turbine Generator Stator, which weighs over 500 tons, out […]
This weekend, a transformer fire at the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant shut down the Fukushima-style BWR reactor, and has sidelined the station until a new transformer is installed. The reactor shut down automatically early Sunday morning, at 3:55 am, after fires broke out in the plant’s main transformer (T-1A), which converts electricity to higher voltage […]
A licensed employee supervisor at the Waterford nuclear power plant confirmed positive for alcohol during a random fitness for duty test. Waterford is operated by Entergy Nuclear and is owned by Entergy Louisiana, Inc. Source: NRC Event Notifications
The Palisades nuclear power plant returned to service last week after being shut down for the last four weeks due to leaks from an aluminum water tank which holds 300,000 gallons of critical borated water used for emergency core cooling systems, the containment spray system, or planned refueling outages. After Palisades spokesman Mark Savage said […]