Junk Plant Salem 2: Pitiful Series of Shutdowns and Primary Leaks

Update 27

progress 14%?

update 7/26

I am certainly confused about this article.

"After being restarted at 11:36 p.m. Thursday, the reactor had to be taken off line again at 11:07 p.m., Sunday,"

It sounds like towards the end of last week, they did a quick plant dump and reload. It might have reached 60% and tripped. It looks like the plant restarted Monday or something. Now still stuck in the same generator bp region of 12%. All that up, down and scram stuff last week for nothing. 

It sounds like we are heading towards a prolong outage.

I hope you see this erratic power operation wasn't emediately report by the licensee and NRC. It questions how much more they can hide.    

N.J. nuclear plant shut down for 4th time in past month

By Bill Gallo Jr. | For NJ.com Today's Sunbeam
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on July 25, 2016 at 7:22 PM, updated July 25, 2016 at 7:23 PM

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LOWER ALLOWAYS CREEK TWP. — The Salem 2 nuclear plant has been shut down for the fourth time this month because of a problem with its main generator.

After being restarted at 11:36 p.m. Thursday, the reactor had to be taken off line again at 11:07 p.m., Sunday, according to Joe Delmar, spokesman for the plant's operator, PSEG Nuclear.

Workers are troubleshooting the problem, Delmar said on Monday afternoon.

The latest shutdown came after an alert from a generator protection system indicated that there was an electrical fault.

The string of plant shutdowns began on June 28 when the main generator protection system activated and the plant was automatically taken off line.

Salem 2 was restarted July 3 and then went off line again on July 4 when another issue was discovered.

On-line again on July 11, the plant was only producing electricity for about seven hours when it was shut down when the generator protection system indicated a problem.

The reactor was restarted and began sending out electricity over the regional power grid Thursday at 11:36 p.m.

One Sunday at 11:07 p.m. once again there was an indication there was a problem in with the generator and Salem 2 was taken off-line.

Each time, operators thought they had solved what was causing the generator protection systems to send out warnings.

Delmar had no estimate when the plant would be brought back online.

Salem 2 is one of three reactors operated by PSEG Nuclear at its Artificial Island generating complex in Lower Alloways Creek township.

Salem 1 is currently shut down for replacement of damaged bolts in the reactor core. Hope Creek, the third reactor  is operating at full power.

The three reactors in Salem County comprise the second-largest nuclear generating complex in the United States