Junk Grand Gulf Capacity factor

Feb 23 0%
22 0%
21 0%
20 0%
19 95%
18 95%
17 95%
16 95%
15 96%
14 96%
13 96%
12 96%

Usually it is in a paper if a plant goes into refueling. I would not spend so much time on this if Entergy reported the  refueling in the paper.

Sounds like they got failed fuel pin failures????

Grand Gulf has been saying for almost a year they are coasting down to refueling. I guess you can say there is a slow decline in the power level. They problem is this has been going on for about three months. 

Dec 23, 2015:

Grand Gulf 1

98

HOLD FOR SETUP FOR POWER SUPPRESSION TESTING

Dec 11

97

INCREASING POWER

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Seems Grand Gulf has been having trouble keeping their plant at power.

GRAND GULF NUCLEAR STATION - NRC 95001 SUPPLEMENTAL INSPECTION REPORT 05000416/2014009 (Aug 2014)  

Dear Mr. Mulligan (not me): On June 20, 2014, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) completed a supplemental inspection at your Grand Gulf Nuclear Station. The enclosed report documents the results of this inspection, which were discussed with you and members of your staff, during an exit meeting on June 20, 2014, as well as during the re-exit meeting on August 6, 2014, with members of your staff. As required by the NRC Reactor Oversight Process Action Matrix, this supplemental inspection was performed in accordance with Inspection Procedure 95001, “Supplemental Inspection for One or Two White Inputs in a Strategic Performance Area.” The purpose of the inspection was to examine the causes for, and actions taken related to, a White Performance Indicator in the Initiating Events Cornerstone at Grand Gulf Nuclear Station. The performance indicator was for Unplanned Reactor Scrams per 7,000 Critical Hours and crossed the Green-to-White threshold during the first quarter of 2013. The performance indicator value was noted as 3.2. This inspection also reviewed the details of all five licensee event reports that were submitted to the NRC for unplanned scram events that occurred between the dates of December 29, 2012 and March 17, 2014. There was an additional unplanned scram event that occurred on March 29, 2014, but due to a vendor review in process, the root cause evaluation was not complete for this inspection period. Thus, the licensee event report for that event will not be addressed in this report.

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Corrective actions associated with the adverse trend are:

• The licensee has taken action already to increase staff allocation in the electrical field so that there are more staff to accomplish the preventative maintenance tasks. Currently, the licensee has identified that there is a shortage of electrical workers and is actively working to increase staff.

November 13, 2015

SUBJECT: GRAND GULF NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION, UNIT 1– NRC

COMPONENT DESIGN BASES INSPECTION REPORT 05000416/2015007


Dear Mr. Mulligan:

On October 1, 2015, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) completed an inspection at your Grand Gulf Nuclear Station Unit 1. On August 27, 2015, the NRC inspectors discussed the preliminary results of this inspection with you and other members of your staff. On October 1, 2015, the NRC inspectors discussed the final results of this inspection with you and other members of your staff.

Inspectors documented the results of this inspection in the enclosed inspection report. The NRC inspectors documented seven findings of very low safety significance (Green) in this report. All of these findings involved violations of NRC requirements; one of these violations was determined to be Severity Level IV under the traditional enforcement process. Additionally,

the NRC inspectors documented three Severity Level IV violations with no associated finding.

The NRC is treating these violations as non…

Security related violations and a security related OI investigation are always a symptom a plant is running away from management. 

GRAND GULF NUCLEAR STATION – NRC SECURITY INSPECTION REPORT 05000416/2015404

Dear Mr. Mulligan:

On October 8, 2015, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) completed a security inspection at the Grand Gulf Nuclear Station. An NRC inspector discussed the results of this inspection with you and other members of your staff. The inspector documented the results of this inspection in the enclosed inspection report. NRC inspectors documented three findings of very low security significance (Green) in this report. All of these findings involved violations of NRC requirements. The NRC is treating these violations as non-cited violations (NVCs) consistent with Section 2.3.2.a of the Enforcement

Policy
 

Dear Mr. Mulligan:

This letter refers to the investigation conducted by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission's Office of Investigations, Region IV, at Grand Gulf Nuclear Station; Inspection Report 05000416/2015406 enclosed. The purpose of the investigation was to determine if there was a willful security-related violation at the Grand Gulf Nuclear Station. Following notification by Grand Gulf Nuclear Station staff of a potential willful security-related violation the NRC initiated an investigation on February 26, 2014. The investigation was completed on February 25, 2015. Based on the evidence developed during the investigation, the NRC

determined that a willful security-related violation occurred. The enclosed inspection report documents the inspection results, which were discussed on July 16, 2015, with Paul Salgado, Acting Director of Regulatory Assurance and Performance Improvement, and other members of your staff.