Time to strap on your unqualified titanium gonad shields.
***Oct 20th troubles with CRDMs. Check out how expensive these two outages cost Entergy.
This are one of the three shutdown Entergy plants I have been watching. Basically not enough money to keep them running like a top and much weakened NRC. River Bend and Grand Goof.
Leak being repaired at Palisades
By ALEXANDRA NEWMAN - HP Staff Writer
3 hrs ago
COVERT — A through-wall leak was found at Palisades nuclear power plant last Saturday during a visual inspection of the reactor head, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission reported Wednesday.
The NRC released a notification that the non-emergency leak was found on a reactor vessel head control rod drive nozzle. An NRC metallurgical specialist was on site inspecting Palisades’ reactor vessel assessment activities when the problem was identified.
The resident inspectors were onsite as well and were notified when the discovery was made.
In addition, Palisades found similar ultrasonic test characteristics in another nozzle while assessing the condition of other control rod drive nozzles, but this nozzle did not exhibit evidence of through-wall leakage.
Palisades will repair the problems before the plant restarts from the current refueling outage.
Last week, the plant officially began a scheduled $62 million refueling and maintenance outage. It is the first of two remaining at Palisades before the plant’s retirement in spring 2022.
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