Monday, September 24, 2018

Junk Plant Grand Goof's Pitifully Slow Startup Vs the Two Plant Brunswick

Update Jan 26

 95%

 update Sept 26

 Grand Goof is at 90%. I give them a week before they trip again. 

 Update Sept 25

 What has stalled the power ascension on the Brunswick plant?

 Gulf Gulfs power rise is ok, but still slow.    

Sept 25

Brunswick 1  71%
Brunswick 2  92%
Grand Goof   77%

 Update

 Grand Gulf's startup is too slow and Brunswick's is too fast. At Brunswick, the Cape Fear River is still in the flood stage, unbelievable flooding debris washing down their rivers and coal ash entering the river. Their roads are all torn up and a nuclear emergency couldn't get a clean evacuation. It is just too uncertain situation to be running a ancient plant as that. They should have waited a week, then make the evaluation. But the Brunswick startup and power ascension looks typical for nuclear plants. Grand Gulf looks highly abnormal.    

***Remember,the Brunswick units just went through the eye of hurricane Florence. Grand Gulf has a long history of erratic startups and plant operations.  

Grand Gulf
Sept 18  0
Sept 19  15
Sept 20  41
Sept 21  55
Sept 24  51


Brunswick 1
Sept 18  0%
Sept 19  0
Sept 20  0
Sept 21  0
Sept 24  68

Brunswick 2
Sept 18  0%
Sept 19  0
Sept 20  15
Sept 21  69
Sept 24  90


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3 comments:

  1. Jay12:15 AM

    WTH is wrong with Grand Gulf now? The natural gas traders are making money by watching the daily status of Grand Gulf. When it is on unscheduled outage, the amount of gas headed to winter storage is the SE US drops by 50%.

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  2. Jay12:17 AM

    P.S. I live 45 miles downwind so I have more that a passing interest and none of the press here will even make a phone call.

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  3. Mike Mulligan11:51 AM

    Thanks for the comments. One never knows what is causing this because the industry is so secretive. They got a lot of plants in trouble. Many years ago they bought a lot a junker nuke plants up north that are very expensive. This is draining a lot of money from the southern nukes. Really, very little oversight from the Nuclear Regulatory commissioner. This was before the natural gas revolution and expensive electricity. So it is money problems and can't hire the expensive talent to run this plant. I think it is hard to get the talent needed to come down to Louisiana. Maybe it the petrol industry taking all the good employees away from energy.

    I think all your newspapers have been captured by Entergy and all your business interest.


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