June 16:
Are the Texas Nuclear plants OK? I don't see any immediate issues yet...By Kristen Hays(Reuters) - Tropical Storm Bill punched the Texas coast with heavy rains and strong winds on Tuesday, the National Weather Service said, just three weeks after floods killed about 30 people in the state.The second named tropical storm of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season made landfall near Matagorda, a sportfishing town near the South Texas Nuclear Generating Station in Bay City, a coastal nuclear power plant.Spokesman Buddy Eller said the plant had prepared for the storm and operations were normal with full staffing.Companies said output from oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, which pumps about a fifth of all domestic crude, was unaffected.But BP Plc shut its Mad Dog and Atlantis fields early on Tuesday after a pipeline outage that was expected to be fixed soon, a source said. It was unclear if the storm caused the outage.Vessel traffic was halted in the Houston Ship Channel, the biggest U.S. petrochemical port, and ports in Galveston and Texas City, officials said...
There are two operating nuclear power plants in Texas. The South Texas Project (STP) is in Matagorda County near Bay City, about 90 miles southwest of Houston. Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant is in Somervell County near Glen Rose, TX, about 40 miles south of Fort Worth. Both have twin reactors.
South Texas Project (Bay City): Has a cooling lake...about a mile from the Colorado River. It is close to the coast.
Let me get this straight, the cooling water reservoir sits at the 41 ft level, the plant itself is 28 ft level, while the Colorado River is about at sea level?
Let me get this straight, the cooling water reservoir sits at the 41 ft level, the plant itself is 28 ft level, while the Colorado River is about at sea level?
Comanche Peak (Glen Rose):On the Squaw Creek Reservoir...about one mile from the
Brazos River. Not far from Fort Worth. Hmm, the reservoir has a river going into it. Squaw Creek is a tributary of the Brazos River?
Brazos River is flooding big time downstream in Waco...but this river has big water projects all through it and dams on the river.
I don't see any issues unless a dam fails.
Could the rainfall amounts overwhelm the roof or property drainage designs.
Brazos River is flooding big time downstream in Waco...but this river has big water projects all through it and dams on the river.
I don't see any issues unless a dam fails.
Could the rainfall amounts overwhelm the roof or property drainage designs.
No NRC notices on Texas!!!
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