Pilgrim Stuck at 22% Power for 24 hours: Chickens Coming Home to Roost with Poor Maintenance

Feb 27: The whole Story: 

Pilgrim Stuck at 22% After Storm Neptune: Beginning To a Pull Fitzpatrick

Feb 20 update

• (NRC) Entergy is working through some non-safety related balance-of-plant equipment issues. The company is taking appropriate action to work through these issues, and they will restore full power once they are resolved. None of current equipment problems involve safety related equipment.
  Diane Screnci
  Region I

Hmm, "work though these issues"? 

That is more like it, early this morning Pilgrim is up to 92% power. Did Pilgrim get a special exemption?  

This report is made at midnight. So sometime on Tues they started up and we have no idea actually what time it was started up.

What do you expect, all these preventable hard scrams, normal scrams, downpowers and shutdowns are beating the hell out of the plant. 

Being stuck at about 22% power in a start up is highly unusual for greater than 24 hours. 

Something big is wrong and all these maintenance periods of recent and they still can't get it right?

Bet you they are listening to the operations department now?  

Yesterday Wednesday. 

Power Reactor Status Report for February 18, 2015 

Region 1 

Unit	Power
Beaver Valley 1	100
Beaver Valley 2	100
Calvert Cliffs 1	100
Calvert Cliffs 2	0
FitzPatrick	100
Ginna	100
Hope Creek 1	100
Indian Point 2	100
Indian Point 3	100
Limerick 1	100
Limerick 2	100
Millstone 2	100
Millstone 3	100
Nine Mile Point 1	98
Nine Mile Point 2	100
Oyster Creek	100
Peach Bottom 2	89
Peach Bottom 3	100
Pilgrim 1	18
Salem 1	100
Salem 2	100
Seabrook 1	100
Susquehanna 1	100
Susquehanna 2	100
Three Mile Island 1	100

Today Thursday 

Current Power Reactor Status Report for February 19, 2015 

Region 1 

Unit	Power
Beaver Valley 1	100
Beaver Valley 2	100
Calvert Cliffs 1	100
Calvert Cliffs 2	0
FitzPatrick	100
Ginna	100
Hope Creek 1	100
Indian Point 2	100
Indian Point 3	100
Limerick 1	100
Limerick 2	99
Millstone 2	100
Millstone 3	100
Nine Mile Point 1	98
Nine Mile Point 2	0
Oyster Creek	100
Peach Bottom 2	89
Peach Bottom 3	100
Pilgrim 1	22
Salem 1	96
Salem 2	100
Seabrook 1	100
Susquehanna 1	96
Susquehanna 2	96
Three Mile Island 1	100

So here below is the Pilgrim start up from Storm Juno. 0% to 79% power in 24 hours. 

Power Reactor Status Report for February 7, 2015 

Region 1

Unit	Power
Beaver Valley 1	100
Beaver Valley 2	100
Calvert Cliffs 1	100
Calvert Cliffs 2	100
FitzPatrick	100
Ginna	100
Hope Creek 1	100
Indian Point 2	100
Indian Point 3	100
Limerick 1	100
Limerick 2	100
Millstone 2	100
Millstone 3	100
Nine Mile Point 1	100
Nine Mile Point 2	100
Oyster Creek	100
Peach Bottom 2	89
Peach Bottom 3	100
Pilgrim 1	0
Salem 1	100
Salem 2	90
Seabrook 1	100
Susquehanna 1	100
Susquehanna 2	79
Three Mile Island 1	100

Power Reactor Status Report for February 8, 2015

Region 1 

Unit	Power
Beaver Valley 1	100
Beaver Valley 2	100
Calvert Cliffs 1	100
Calvert Cliffs 2	100
FitzPatrick	100
Ginna	100
Hope Creek 1	100
Indian Point 2	100
Indian Point 3	100
Limerick 1	100
Limerick 2	100
Millstone 2	100
Millstone 3	100
Nine Mile Point 1	100
Nine Mile Point 2	100
Oyster Creek	100
Peach Bottom 2	89
Peach Bottom 3	100
Pilgrim 1	79
Salem 1	100
Salem 2	100
Seabrook 1	100
Susquehanna 1	100
Susquehanna 2	100
Three Mile Island 1

Power Reactor Status Report for February 9, 2015

Unit	Power
Beaver Valley 1	100
Beaver Valley 2	100
Calvert Cliffs 1	100
Calvert Cliffs 2	100
FitzPatrick	100
Ginna	100
Hope Creek 1	100
Indian Point 2	100
Indian Point 3	100
Limerick 1	100
Limerick 2	99
Millstone 2	100
Millstone 3	100
Nine Mile Point 1	100
Nine Mile Point 2	100
Oyster Creek	100
Peach Bottom 2	89
Peach Bottom 3	100
Pilgrim 1	97
Salem 1	100
Salem 2	100
Seabrook 1	100
Susquehanna 1	100
Susquehanna 2	100
Three Mile Island 1	100