River Bend At Reduce Power Again

23 99%

22 99%

21 94%
 11/19 98%

If this is some rendition of a rod pattern exchange, what a horrible was of money and capacity factor.  

update 11/18

Something is wrong here. A core misload or something? Are they battling wide spread fuel failures? This is occurring much too frequently and its deeply damaging plant capacity factor.

87%

November 10, 2015

SUBJECT:RIVER BEND STATION – NRC INTEGRATED INSPECTION REPORT 05000458/2015003

River Bend Station began the inspection period with operators performing power ascension activities following a forced maintenance outage until 100 percent reactor thermal power was reached on July 4, 2015. It departed from full power as follows:

• On July 13, 2015, power was reduced to 65 percent for control rod suppression testing. Upon completion, power ascension activities were performed to reach 100 percent power on July 19, 2015.

• On September 4, 2015, power was reduced to 65 percent for control rod sequence exchange and scram time testing. Upon completion, power ascension activities were performed to reach 100 percent power on September 8, 2015.

 

Power remained at essentially 100 percent for the remainder of the inspection period.

Update 11/17

I guess if you are regulated it doesn't matter what your power history is.

June/July 2015 power problems

Maybe averaging 70% for the last three or four days. How can they make money this way?

The last five days power history:

88% 11/17

75%

65%

65%

100%