Indian Point 3 Confusion

Now it makes sense... IP3 returns to service BUCHANAN – The Indian Point nuclear power plant Unit 3 returned to service on Thursday afternoon after it was manually shut down on Wednesday when control room operators observed fluctuating water levels inside a steam generator. Operators determined that one of the unit’s three condensate pumps, which is part of the system that feeds water into the plant’s steam generators, automatically shut down while the unit was operating at full power, causing water levels inside the steam generator to fluctuate. The three condensate pumps are located on the non-nuclear side of the plant. The unit is operating safely on two condensate pumps while engineers and mechanics repair the third. Unit 2 continues to operate at full power. Entergy spokesman Jerry Nappi said earlier Thursday that workers were making repairs to one of the water pumps that shut down the reactor, which was expected to return to service by Saturday.

I wonder why this newspaper got it wrong...Entergy feeding them bum information? 

Wednesday's shutdown was the latest incident at the power plant over the last few months. 

Downed Indian Point reactor due back online 

A tanker goes past Indian Point on May 11, two days after a transformer explosion released oil into the Hudson River.(Photo: Ricky Flores/The Journal News)Buy Photo
BUCHANAN – Entergy expects its down Indian Point nuclear reactor to start pumping out electricity again by the week's end, a spokesman said Thursday. 

"They are making repairs to one of the water pumps that shut down Unit 3," Entergy spokesman Jerry Nappi said. "We expect the plant to be back up by the end of the week." It should be running by Saturday, he said. 

A malfunctioning water pump forced operators to shut down the Unit 3 nuclear reactor at about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. The plant's second reactor - Unit 2 - continues to operate at full capacity...

The 1% indicates they tried to startup...now they are talking about the end of the week end. Something doesn't add up? 

Power Status

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	1
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	100
Peach Bottom 3	100
Pilgrim 1	100
Salem 1	100
Salem 2	100
Seabrook 1	100
Susquehanna 1	100
Susquehanna 2	100
Three Mile Island 1	100