Seabrook's Crap Service Water System

So why does the American Nuclear Society think Seabrook is so vulnerable...maybe because they know Seabrook isn't taking care of their plant?

Nuclear Matinee: Economic Benefits from Seabrook Station

Posted on January 24, 2014 by ansnuclearcafe| 1 Comment

A nuclear power station contributes a lot more in benefits to a community and region than just massive amounts of 24/7 electricity generation—although it should be noted that, in the case of Seabrook Station alone, 42 percent of New Hampshire’s entire electricity generation comes from this single power plant. Amazing. See this excellent post at NEI Nuclear Notes for more on Seabrook’s “bigger picture,” and this story for more on regional economic benefits in particular...

First posted on 1/9/ 2014

I am paranoid no doubt. It is just interesting the delay from the Shaheen staff…did the NRC coach them to wait until the LER came out before they submitted my letter? Isn’t that a strange set of enquires and responses…with the LER coming in within days on the link of the first post (1/7) below. Do i have great timing?

　Seabrook Nuclear Station's "Crap" Service Water Piping System 　 

Sarah,

This is the first LER that came out today (1/9):

http://adamswebsearch2.nrc.gov/webSearch2/main.jsp?AccessionNumber='ML13365A003'

Sarah,

So the service water piping leak was discovered to be leaking 10 drops per minute on Aug 7.

You call these people professional with a statement like this with not aching for the actual condition of the pipe under the hole :
“Based on the leak rate of 10 dpm (drops per minute), both the preparer and reviewer of the POD were of the opinion that this leak was the same as previous pin hole leaks identified in service water piping.”On Aug 20 the leak increased to 90 dpm….that is a much more than 900% increase in leakage rate from less than 10 dps…
This below implies there are many secret leaks in the service water system. We have no idea of this trend and the rate of increase over time?
“through wall wormhole based on operating experience on the train B SW strainer bypass line.”
“both the preparer and reviewer of the POD were of the opinion that this leak was the same as previous pin hole leaks identified in service water piping.Right, a simple search in their document system would get you to this “ previous pin hole leak” had developed in a brand new pipe (2011) covered with a special epoxy material. Another leak or thin walling made the replace this pipe. Big alarm bells should have been going off in their heads that something strange was going in a brand new pipe with this kind of leak. This is basic power plant professionalism!
On Aug 28, the leak increased to 25 gpm (gallons per minute).
It takes about 50,000 drops of water to make one gallon of water.My calculation says from 90 dps to 25 gpm…that is a 1.4 million percent increase in leak rate.
These guys are playing technical word games with the NRC…and the NRC is allowing them to be deceptive. There is nothing in the world that destroys the culture of an organization than these kinds of word games. It is the way the educated professional class lies and steals money from the poor and middle class! They play high stakes word game instead of robbing banks with guns!

They don’t change until they pay a serious price or a accident of a similar type scares the pants off all of us. Heads need to roll!

Remember, Seabrook has had a whole host of bad operability determination calls over their service water system in recent years…way more than the good and conservative calls.

If they called this conservatively and legally…Seabrook would have been required to be shutdown within 29 hours of Aug 9. They probably would have had to cut out and repair all the other thin pipe wall areas and all the other leaks. They would have been in a two week to one month shutdown. Who knows what the would have found? That would have cost them between $20 million dollars to $40 million dollars. This big money is forcing these words game.

Fukushima Daiichi was solely about the plants staff and their corporate management inability to tell the difference between their own self generated fiction and the scientific truth.

The NRC says in their inspection report Seabrook didn’t support their “prompt operability determination” (POD)..what ever than meant. I pushed the NRC senior resident inspector concerning this…he said, “Mike, it is gross incompetent of the staff.” Seabrook says in the recent LER, it was overconfidence. You know, we can’t tell fact from fiction.

I think all these highly educated and skilled employee screw ups…their poor procedures, lack of report and the missing questioning attitude…exactly got them what they wanted. The delay contrary to procedures with shutting down for a month, which got them to temporary patch in early September…that got them with the patch into the next year.

Remember, they have no idea why that hole in the new pipe (2011) developed under that patch job!