River Bend Six Violations: Extreme Bureaucratic Chaotic Conditions In Junk Plant.

Right, this is how a plant descends into destructive and chaotic disorganization. Just before it enters into a huge loss of capacity factor. The NRC placed River Bend’s capacity factor on artificial respiration and feeding is happening through the veins. This plant is in an extremely fragile conditions.

NRC Begins Special Inspection at River Bend Station

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has begun a special inspection at the River Bend Station nuclear power plant to review circumstances surrounding events that occurred following an unplanned reactor shutdown on Jan. 9. The plant, operated by Entergy Operations, Inc., is located in St. Francisville, La.

The plant was operating at full power when a lightning strike caused a momentary surge in the plant’s offsite power supply, triggering an unplanned shutdown. Operators subsequently took appropriate actions to place the plant in a safe shutdown condition. The following day, operational errors led to a one hour loss of shutdown cooling.

“The purpose of this special inspection is to better understand the circumstances surrounding the loss of shutdown cooling, determine if operator response was appropriate, and review the licensee’s corrective actions to ensure that the cause of the event, including associated equipment problems and any contributing operator actions have been effectively addressed,” NRC Region IV Administrator Marc Dapas said.

Several NRC inspectors will spend about a week on site evaluating the licensee’s root cause analysis, maintenance of some plant systems and adequacy of corrective actions. An inspection report documenting the team’s findings will be publicly available within 45 days of the end of the inspection.

Remember the NRC has spent a considerable amount of resources at this plant last year. This report and the new special inspection indicates the medicine never worked.

Your get it: 

Inspection report completed on Jan 7

Problematic scram and cooling the core on Jan 9

Then special inspection called a month later on Feb 8

God only knows what the inspectors bosses told them not to report on.

I think the plant is addicted to shading the truth and activity falsifying documents. Their credibility is on the line.  They are maliciously disrupting federal oversight and the NRC is allowing them to get away with it. This is the example of harmlessly paper-whipping never changes behavior.  I don’t think anyone knows the true configuration or condition of this site. I think Entergy has trained their employees' the NRC is the enemy and nobody in Louisiana respects any form of government.  

This Inspection Report anticipated the problems with keeping the core cooled last shutdown. 

I consider this very troubling inspector report "a cry for help" by the local inspectors.

February 10, 2016 

SUBJECT:RIVER BEND STATION – NRC INTEGRATED INSPECTION REPORT 05000458/2015004

Dear Mr. Olson:

On December 31, 2015, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) completed an inspection at your River Bend Station, Unit 1. On January 7, 2016, the NRC inspectors discussed the results of this inspection with you and other members of your staff. Inspectors documented the results of this inspection in the enclosed inspection report.
NRC inspectors documented six 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. Further, inspectors documented a licensee-identified violation which was determined to be of very low safety significance in this report. The NRC is treating these violations as non-cited violations consistent with Section 2.3.2.a of the NRC Enforcement Policy.