Heroin In Hinsdale,NH: Is WalMart Eating up Police Department Resources

Update 8/18

OK, is Walmart property taxes properly flowing through the selectman office into the police department...such that the police department can fully support Walmart?

Again, the only way we are going to fix this is if we are data driven. Not secret agendas!!!

Update:

"More than 2.4 million Americans were addicted to synthetic pain relievers or heroin in 2014, according to the latest federal survey on drug use and health".

A heavy addicts spends about $200 to $300  a day on heroin.  Think about the crime wave needed to support this addiction. Maybe the total spending by addicts is about a $ 1billion dollars a day. Honestly, are we talking about $365 billion dollars a year heroin tab per year from the USA?

I wonder how much shoplifting at Hinsdale Walmart supports heroin addiction in our area? 

I estimate there are more than 12 million heroin users in the USA. Total of about 15 million users?  

I worked at the Hinsdale Walmart a few years back. I hated working there with how management pushed the conservative ideology. The police were always parading in and out of the store to contend with shoplifters. I got dinged for stealing time at Walmart in their camera'd store wide theft prevention and detection system. I was caught  purchasing snacks for lunch on the clock. This is strictly forbidden.  

When I worked there at Walmart  they was making big bucks over shoplifters. The stores would basically fine the shoplifters. When they caught the shoplifters, they would offer them a deal. Either you pay us $500 to a $1000 dollars on the spot, sign a agreement to never come in the store,  or you are going to jail. It's very time consuming transporting these guys to county jail in Keene from Hinsdale. I image at the police station, they call the court bondsman and he offers them bail. I wonder how many a year end up going to county jail? I imagine these guys got court issues before the shoplifting and the police department is compelled to give them a ride to the Keene jail and facing the court. Is the police station even manned during off business hours? I supposed they got decent cells in the new police building.

Questions I would pose to the selectman is if Walmart is carrying their local tax rates with this police support. Hinsdale is a tiny police force and this site has a lot of customers. Usually Walmart gets locale tax reductions as part of the deal to construct the new store. I wouldn't be shocked if Walmart pays zero or little property taxes as part of the deal to get the SuperCenter into the town.

Does the poorly paid employees have a draw for heroin issues in Hinsdale? The fragile poor employees moved into Hinsdale's slum ghettoes and landlords, thereby intensifying the heroin problem.  You know darling, we need milk and tampons at Walmart, don't forget to pick up the heroin at our  Hinsdale  heroin dealer too. Most of these employees are disabled in on way or another, it a requirement they find work in order to stay on Welfare. It is a hell of a tax write off for Walmart to hire a disabled employee.

The police department would have to be data driven. I doubt this police department collects any data. So they would have to collect the information on all police involvement with Walmart and record it.

The perfect storm with the intensification of heroin addiction in Hinsdale and police needs at Walmart...

Bloomberg:  Walmart’s Out-of-Control Crime Problem Is Driving Police Crazy

According to Walmart Stores executives, it’s all starting to work.

Police chiefs and their officers on the ground say that’s just not so. Ross likes to joke that the concentration of crime at Walmart makes his job easier. “I’ve got all my bad guys in one place,” he says, flashing a bright smile. His squad’s sergeant, Robert Rohloff, a 34-year police veteran who has to worry about staffing, budgets, and patrolling the busiest commercial district in Tulsa, says there’s nothing funny about Walmart’s impact on public safety. He can’t believe, he says, that a multibillion-dollar corporation isn’t doing more to stop crime. Instead, he says, it offloads the job to the police at taxpayers’ expense. “It’s ridiculous—we are talking about the biggest retailer in the world,” says Rohloff. “I may have half my squad there for hours.”

Walmart knows police departments are frustrated. “We absolutely understand how important this is. It is important for our associates, it is important for our customers and across the communities we serve,” says Judith McKenna, Walmart’s chief operating officer for the U.S. “We can do better.”

Questions I would posed to the selectman.

1) How much property taxes a year does Walmart pay to the town?

2) Is the property tax rate ethical and moral compared to the profits they gain in the store?

3) On average, how much money does it cost Hinsdale per shoplifting event (man hours)?

4) When the shoplifter cycles through the courts, they usually get jail time, more likely a big fine and court costs. Does Hinsdale get a proportion of court fines to cover the police cost?

5) Ask the police chief:  how much is Walmart a burden to the police department budgeting?

NYTs: To My Newspaper Buddies, The Sad Story Of Poor Women In Trouble.

Update 8/18
 OK, so you want me to give you my big picture on it all? We don't make life compelling, interesting and worthwhile for the bottom half. Not enough people think life is worthwhile... If you think this thing is money you are crazier than me. Most people think  life is nothing but a grueling journey to nowhere.  That is why we are into all these titillating superficial and temporary pleasures of money, drugs, alcohol and cigarettes, food addictions, worthless temporary thrills,  arrant agendas of no worth to fill up our lives and the grossly expensive citadels of bling. expensive cloths, cars, macmansion and artificial excitement to no ends. It like we are all putting our neurons in a  continuous haze titillation and diversion. We are the la, la, la, la generation till death. The more we build up these citadels of materialism and it doesn't, we work like slaves more, then double up on more materialism to bolster our poor self esteem and confidence. Why isn't life enough?   

How many generations of children pays the price for one mother in trouble?

How does this all play out for the heroin Mothers and children of today?

Number of Women in Jail Has Grown Far Faster Than That of Men, Study Says

When Dolfinette Martin was convicted of shoplifting more than $700 worth of clothes in Louisiana in 2005, she had five children, no money and an addiction to cocaine.

Seven years later, in 2012, Ms. Martin became one of a growing number of impoverished women released from prisons and jails whose plight has been largely overlooked during continuing efforts to reverse mass incarceration, according to criminal justice experts.

“That cycle of poverty — not a lot of resources, not a lot of jobs, the lack of education, you kind of give up,” said Ms. Martin, 46, who now works as an administrative assistant.

*And the most common offenses that led to arrests involved drugs...

Junk plant Watts Bar 1 Power Level Jumping all Over The Place Between 84% and 95% Power

The plant and the fuel pin aren't designed for this erratic power history. These guys are designed for long term operations a 100% power.

Region 1 today has a pathetic average power history compared to the other regions. Region 1 seems to be particularly long on the maintenance tooth with all these impaired powered plants. I get it Watts Bar is in region 2.   

Dead Ender FitPatrick Plant: I Guess I Got The Wrong Radation leak?

Update 8/17

Basically the leak of high radiation resin into the tank room is just negligence. Usually the leak in the room comes from poor coordination between the rad waste operator and the clean up panel in the reactor building. Usually valves malfunction and leak during a backwash caused by insufficient maintenance, then overfills the tank and spills this resin onto the floor. It has occurred over and over again. If the NRC really cared about the rad dose of the

Fitz employees, they would figure out how to force management to keep up with the maintenance of the backwash system. They decades ago should have ripped out the resin back-wash system and replace it better designed new system.

Again, this indicates the NRC selectively enforces their regulation and the NRC has a inadequate tool bag of rules to protect nuclear industry employees against negligent rad doses.  Basically this leads to a sense of powerlessness to the rank and file front line employees seeing this poor professionalism and safe rad doses...it leads to a wider risk because the safety culture gets impaired effecting a wider risk of more components failing when needed.

And negligent fuel failures makes the resin hotter than a fire cracker. 

Well, I knew there was a radiation leak going on somewhere. The NRC is going

Dead-Ender Junk Plant FitzPatrick: Radioactive Discharge to Environment

to think I was sending them a special message about a undisclosed radiation leak. It is plausible I was trying to protect somebody.

Dead Ender Junk Plant Fitzpatrick: Ut-Oh from 85% to 70%?

Can’t you imagine all the steam and water leaks now in this poorly maintained plant.

Here above is another brainless guess. I produced a lot of recent articles on this dead ender plant. I think the natural gas prices will continue to drop making this newest deal bankrupt.

'Minor' radiation leak in FitzPatrick nuclear plant has gone unfixed for 4 years

SCRIBA, N.Y. – The owner of FitzPatrick nuclear plant has allowed highly radioactive waste to leak into a contained area of the facility for at least four years, a safety violation that poses no risk to the public but might make it more difficult to decontaminate the site after the reactor closes.

The problem was cited in the most recent quarterly inspection report by federal safety regulators.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said the accumulation of spilled radioactive waste in the basement of a building at FitzPatrick is of "very low safety significance'' because it occurred in a locked, highly shielded area that is already highly radioactive.

"The bottom line is, we have been aware of this issue for some time, but it poses no immediate risks to any residents or the environment,'' said Neil Sheehan, speaking for the NRC.

Nevertheless, plant owner Entergy Corp.'s failure to address the leak is of "more than minor significance'' because the company knew about the problem for at least four years, the NRC reported.

Nuclear plant owners are required to minimize the accumulation of residual radioactive waste in their plants, which can "greatly increase the cost and complexity of future decommissioning'' after a reactor shuts down, according to the NRC.

Entergy officials today said they put off cleaning up the spill to avoid exposing workers to unnecessary radiation. They have made a robot to do the job instead, said Tammy Holden, speaking for Entergy.

"Cleanup of the area had not been conducted previously because we did not want to subject our employees to unnecessary radiation,'' Holden said. "We have fabricated a vacuum-type robot that will be used to remove the sludge. The removal is scheduled for this month.''

The NRC inspection report issued Friday did not quantify how much waste has accumulated on the floor of the FitzPatrick radwaste building, or how it might impact the plant's decommissioning costs. The waste consists of beads and powdered resins from filters that are used to clean up reactor coolant, said Sheehan, of the NRC.

Nuclear safety expert David Lochbaum, of the Union of Concerned Scientists, said he agreed with the NRC that the leak was of "minor significance.'' It's not uncommon for water spills to occur inside radwaste buildings, leaving waste behind, he wrote in an email. Entergy should have cleaned up the spill because the building floor is not designed to act as a backup storage tank, Lochbaum said.

"It'll be fixed soon now that the NRC (has) shone a spotlight on it,'' he wrote. "Which will demonstrate that it could have been fixed long ago."

The Nine Mile Point Unit 1 reactor experienced a similar long-term spill of radiation waste during the 1980s that was worse than FitzPatrick's, Lochbaum said.

The NRC also criticized Entergy for mistakes during a January 2016 outage that resulted in two plant workers being unintentionally exposed to high radiation levels. Both workers were alerted by alarms from their radiation dose monitors and moved to safety without becoming overexposed, the NRC said.

The NRC is treating both issues raised in the inspection report as "non-cited violations,'' which means FitzPatrick will not face penalties or increased oversight because of them.

Entergy has agreed to sell the 850-megawatt nuclear plant to Exelon Corp., which operates the nearby Nine Mile Point nuclear facility. Until the sale was announced last week, Entergy had planned to shut FitzPatrick permanently when it ran out of fuel in January 2017.

Anti-nuclear activists said the NRC report should raise concerns about the aging FitzPatrick plant, which started operation in 1975.

"These violations highlight the ongoing dangers posed by the upstate nuclear reactors and the lax enforcement by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission," said Tim Judson, of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service. "Entergy has known that this highly radioactive waste spill is a problem for four years, but the NRC has not imposed any fines or other penalties.''

The NRC rates FitzPatrick's general safety performance as "green'' in all 17 categories monitored, the best of four color-coded ratings.

Junk Plant Hatch Junk FirstTime Used 3-Stage SRVs

EDWIN I. HATCH NUCLEAR PLANT - NRC INTEGRATED INSPECTION REPORT 05000321/2016002 AND 05000366/2016002; AND EXERCISE OF ENFORCEMENT DISCRETION

This guys have been jumping back and forth between the two stage and three stage Safety Relief Valves like Mexican jumping beans. I believe this is the newest operational period with all three stage SRV. With the 2 stage it was corrosion bonding causing the setpoint drift, now with the 3 stage it is:  "The licensee determined that the abutment gap closed pre-maturely most likely due to manufacturing tolerances". I think all this is unreliable small parts mechanical tolerances and metallurgy tolerances. Basically the design is too delicate, you look at it the wrong way the set pressure drifts out of specs. I don't think the technicians are skilled or trained adequately to service the SRVS.

The three stage was put into the plant to fix the setpoint drift, now they got this new magical "abutment gap" setpoint drift problem in the 3 stage   problem they couldn't see in design testing.  They always find some explanation for the drift problem without fixing it right the last time.

(CLOSED) LER 05000321/2016-004-00 Safety Relief Valves As Found Setting Resulted in Not Meeting Technical Specifications

a. Inspection Scope
The inspectors reviewed this LER for potential performance deficiencies and/or violations of regulatory requirements. Additionally, discussions were held with licensee
staff members to understand the details surrounding this issue. This condition was documented in the licensee’s corrective action program as CR 10204045. 

b. Findings
Description: During the February 2016 Unit 1 refueling outage, all eleven 3-stage safety

Inspecting and testing all eleven 3 stage in a outage is a sign of weakness. They don't have complete confidence in the design. Some plants won't trust the 3 stage design based on the Pilgrim problem.  

relief valves (SRVs) were removed and replaced. The SRVs were Target Rock model 0867F, a 3-stage valve design which was in its first use. This design was adopted as a
corrective action to address corrosion bonding experienced by 2-stage SRV model 7687F valves which were previously in use at Hatch. "As-found" test results indicated two of the eleven SRVs had experienced a setpoint drift during the previous operating cycle which resulted in their failure to meet the Technical Specification (TS) opening setpoint pressure as required by TS Surveillance Requirement (SR) 3.4.3.1. The SRV pilot valves were disassembled and inspected while investigating the reason for the drift.
For the 3-stage design, the pilot disc seating stresses should increase proportionally as reactor pressure increases to where a mechanical gap within the valve stem
mechanism, referred to as the “abutment gap,” is closed. Additional pressure increases will cause the valve stem mechanism to reduce the disc seat pressure until the valve eventually opens. The licensee determined that the abutment gap closed pre-maturely most likely due to manufacturing tolerances. The cause of the setpoint drift could not be attributed to any known preventive maintenance requirement or operating experience because of the limited operating history of this specific valve model. Additionally, there
were no symptoms available to operators or maintenance personnel to indicate the potential for the set point drift prior to post-service testing. 

Enforcement: Hatch Unit 1 TS limiting condition for operation 3.4.3, “Safety/Relief Valves,” required 10 of 11 SRVs be operable in MODES 1, 2 and 3. With two or more
SRVs inoperable, the required TS action must be taken by the applicable completion time. Contrary to the above, Unit 1 operated from the initiation of the degraded condition
until February 8, 2016, with two SRVs inoperable. The inspectors concluded that the violation would normally be characterized as a Severity Level IV violation because it was of very low safety significance (Green). However, the NRC is exercising enforcement discretion (EA-16-158) in accordance with Section 2.2.4.d of the Enforcement Policy because the violation was not associated with a licensee performance deficiency. This issue was documented in the licensee’s corrective action program as CR10204045.

Junk facility Watts Bar New Inspection Report: Site Spinning Wildly Out Of the Control Of The NRC

Not putting in the required paperwork to the NRC indicates the site is spinning out of control from the NRC.

This is not the normal new plant start-up process in Unit 2...it indicates widespread poor quality issues with all the components.
wildly

IR 05000390/2016-002; 05000391/2016-002; April 1, 2016 – June 30, 2016; Watts Bar, Units 1 and 2; Triennial Fire Protection Inspection, Operability Evaluations, Surveillance Testing, Problem Identification and Resolution, Event Follow-up. 

Summary of Plant Status 

Unit 1 started the reporting period at 100 percent rated thermal power and remained there until March 22, 2016, when the reactor tripped due to a main turbine trip caused by a governor valve circuit card failure. Unit 1 returned to 100 percent rated thermal power on March 28, 2016, and remained there until June 11, 2016, when power reductions were necessary to maintain main low pressure turbine #3 back pressure limits during warmer weather. Unit 1 operated between

89 and 97 percent power, as necessary to maintain main turbine backpressure limits, until June 25, 2016, when power was reduced due to turbine building sump overflowing, resulting from turbine building sump pump failures. The rising water level approached the running unit 1 #3 high pressure heater drain tank pumps. The licensee decided to secure the #3 high pressure heater drain pumps and, as a result, lowered unit 1 power. Power reduction continued to 60 percent on June 27, 2016, then increased over the next three days to 79 percent by the end of the reporting period.

Unit 2 started the reporting period in mode 3 and remained there until April 2, 2016, when it entered mode 4 for repairs to leaking safety injection check valves. The unit re-entered mode 3 on April 8, 2016, where it remained until April 17, 2016, when it re-entered mode 4 due to failure of the turbine-driven auxiliary feedwater pump (TDAFW) to meet mode 3 operability requirements. The unit re-entered mode 3 on May 1, 2016, where it remained until May 18, 2016, when it re-entered mode 4 for repairs to the solid state protection system. The unit reentered mode 3 on May 20, 2016. The unit then entered mode 2 on May 23, 2016, and mode 1 on May 25, 2016, where it remained until May 28, 2016, when it re-entered mode 3 due to abnormal indications of foreign material in the main turbine when it was rolled at low speed for the first time. The unit re-entered mode 2 and mode 1 on May 31, 2016. The unit remained in mode 1 until June 5, 2016, when the #1 turbine governor valve failed full open, causing an automatic reactor trip and safety injection. The unit re-entered mode 2 and mode 1 on June 8, 2016. The unit remained in mode 1 until an automatic reactor trip caused by steam generator low level occurred on June 20, 2016. The reactor trip was the result of a secondary transient caused by the loss of the running main feedwater pump. The unit re-entered mode 2 on June 23, 2016, and re-entered mode 1 on June 24, 2016. The unit re-entered mode 2 on June 26, 2016, due to a high pressure steam leak and subsequent lifting of two main steam safety valves

on the #4 steam generator. The unit re-entered mode 3 on June 26, 2016, to repair the steam leak and the safety valves. The unit remained in mode 3 through the end of the reporting period. 

*The report covered a three-month period of inspection by the resident and regional inspectors. Ten NRC-identified and self-revealed findings were identified. 

NRC-Identified Findings and Self-Revealed Findings 

• SL IV. The NRC identified a Severity Level (SL) IV non-cited violation (NCV) of 10 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 50.73(a)(2)(i)(B) for the licensee's failure to notify the NRC that the technical specification (TS) limiting condition for operation (LCO) 3.5.2 required action and completion time were not met when the 1B-B centrifugal charging pump (CCP) was inoperable due to an inoperable room cooler. Subsequently, the licensee submitted LER 2016-006-00 for this event on June 30, 2016. This issue was placed in the licensee’s corrective action program (CAP) as CR 1165380.

Since the failure to submit an event report within the time requirements may impact the ability of the NRC to perform its regulatory oversight function, this performance deficiency was dispositioned under traditional enforcement and the violation was assessed using Section 2.2.4 of the NRC’s Enforcement Policy. Using the example listed in Section 6.9.d.9, “A licensee fails to make report required by 10 CFR 50.73,” the issue was determined to be a SL IV violation. In accordance with IMC 0612, “Power Reactor Inspection Reports,” dated May 6, 2016, traditional enforcement violations are not assessed for cross-cutting aspects. (Section 1R15)

• SL IV: The NRC identified a SL IV NCV of 10 CFR 50.73(a)(2)(i)(B) for the licensee's failure notify the NRC that the TS LCO 3.1.8 required action and completion time were not met when the analog rod position indication (ARPI) and the demand position indication system were not operable. Subsequently, the licensee submitted LER 2016-007-00 for this issue on June 20, 2016. This violation was placed in the licensee’s corrective action program as CR 1163150.

Since the failure to submit an event report within the time requirements may impact the ability of the NRC to perform its regulatory oversight function, this performance deficiency was dispositioned under traditional enforcement and the violation was assessed using Section 2.2.4 of the NRC’s Enforcement Policy. Using the example listed in Section 6.9.d.9, “A licensee fails to make report required by 10 CFR 50.73,” the issue was determined to be a SL IV violation. In accordance with IMC 0612, “Power Reactor Inspection Reports,” dated May 6, 2016, traditional enforcement violations are not assessed for cross-cutting aspects. (Section 4OA3.6)

• SL IV. The NRC identified a SL IV NCV of 10 CFR 50.73(a)(2)(i)(B) for the licensee's failure notify the NRC that the TS LCO 3.6.3 required action and completion time were not met for an inoperable emergency raw cooling water (ERCW) containment isolation valve. Subsequently, the licensee submitted LER 2016-009-00 for this issue on July 15, 2016. This issue was placed in the licensee’s corrective action program as CR 1174000.

Since the failure to submit an event report within the time requirements may impact the ability of the NRC to perform its regulatory oversight function, this performance deficiency was dispositioned under traditional enforcement and the violation was assessed using Section 2.2.4 of the NRC’s Enforcement Policy. Using the example listed in Section 6.9.d.9, “A licensee fails to make report required by 10 CFR 50.73,” the issue was determined to be a SL IV violation. In accordance with IMC 0612, “Power Reactor Inspection Reports,” dated May 6, 2016, traditional enforcement violations are not assessed for cross-cutting aspects. (Section 4OA2.3)

• SL IV. The NRC identified a SL IV NCV of 10 CFR 50.73(a)(2)(i)(B) for the

licensee's failure to report, within 60 days of discovery, a condition which was

prohibited by the plant’s TS associated with recent performances of TS surveillance requirement (SR) 3.5.2.3 for verification that emergency core cooling system (ECCS) piping is full of water. Subsequently, the licensee submitted LER 2016-003-00 for this issue on May 10, 2016. This violation was placed in the licensee’s corrective action program as CR 1166564.

Since the failure to submit an event report within the time requirements may impact the ability of the NRC to perform its regulatory oversight function, this performance deficiency was dispositioned under traditional enforcement and the violation was assessed using Section 2.2.4 of the NRC’s Enforcement Policy. Using the examplelisted in Section 6.9.d.9, “A licensee fails to make report required by 10 CFR 50.73,” the issue was determined to be a SL IV violation. In accordance with IMC 0612, “Power Reactor Inspection Reports,” dated May 6, 2016, traditional enforcement violations are not assessed for cross-cutting aspects. (4OA3.4)

• SL IV. The NRC identified a SL IV NCV of 10 CFR 50, Appendix B, Criterion V,

“Instructions, Procedures, and Drawings,” at Watts Bar Unit 2 for the licensee’s

failure to follow procedure OPDP-8, Operability Determination Process and Limiting Condition for Operation Tracking, Revision 22. Specifically, the 2A-A motor-driven auxiliary feedwater pump (MDAFW) was potentially inoperable in mode 3 due to inadequate compensatory measures that were being controlled outside of the operability process. The issue was corrected and the pump returned to operable status on April 19, 2016. The issue was entered into the licensee’s corrective action program as CR 1163431.

The performance deficiency was more than minor because it represented an

improper or uncontrolled work practice that could impact quality or safety, involving safety-related SSCs. Specifically, failure to appropriately use the operability process when measures must be established to compensate for degraded or nonconforming conditions can lead to SSC inoperability. As described in IMC 2517, the significance of this issue was determined using traditional enforcement, because the cornerstone associated with this finding was not being assessed by the reactor oversight process (ROP). The inspectors determined this finding to be of very low safety significance, SL IV because it represented a failure to meet a regulatory requirement, specifically a quality assurance (QA) criteria to follow quality-related procedures, which had

more than minor safety significance. The finding was assigned a cross-cutting

aspect of Work Management in the Human Performance area because the minor

maintenance work order created to compensate for the oil loss from the 2A-A

MDAFW pump was never reviewed by operations, which could have identified the out of process error. [H.5]. (Section 1R15)

• SL IV. The NRC identified a SL IV NCV of 10 CFR 50, Appendix B, Criterion V,

“Instructions, Procedures, and Drawings,” at Watts Bar Unit 2 for the licensee’s

failure to follow the surveillance test program procedure by making adjustments to the turbine-driven auxiliary feedwater (TDAFW) pump control system during the performance of a surveillance instruction. The licensee reperformed the surveillance instruction with satisfactory results. The issue was entered into the licensee’s corrective action program as CR 1167102.

The performance deficiency was more than minor because making adjustments to the TDAFW pump control system during the performance of a surveillance

instruction could invalidate the test and result in the TDAFW pump being

inappropriately declared operable. As described in IMC 2517, the significance of this issue was determined using traditional enforcement, because the cornerstone associated with this finding was not being assessed by the reactor oversight process (ROP). The inspectors determined this finding to be of very low safety significance, SL IV, because it represented a failure to meet a regulatory requirement, specifically a QA criteria to follow quality-related procedures, which had more than minor safety significance. The finding was assigned a cross-cutting aspect of Conservative Bias in the Human Performance area because numerous individuals were aware the speed adjustment had been made while completing the surveillance instruction but did not question the appropriateness of that adjustment until prompted by NRC inspectors. [H.14] (Section 1R22)

• SL IV. A self-revealed Severity Level (SL) IV non-cited violation (NCV) of 10 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 50, Appendix B, Criterion V, “Instructions, Procedures, and Drawings,” was identified at Watts Bar Unit 2 for the licensee’s failure to follow procedure 0-MI-1.003, Disassembly, Inspection, and Reassembly of Auxiliary Feedwater Pump Turbine. Specifically, the valve stem spring coil gap was not set in accordance with procedure, causing the turbine-driven auxiliary feedwater (TDAFW) pump to trip on electrical overspeed when the level control valves (LCVs) were closed. This issue was corrected on May 30, 2016, when the proper spring coil gap was set and verified and the post maintenance test was performed satisfactorily. The issue was entered into the licensee’s corrective action program as CR 1175968. 

The performance deficiency was more than minor because it represented an

improper or uncontrolled work practice that could impact quality or safety involving safety-related structures, systems, and components (SSCs). The finding was a SL IV violation because it represented a failure to meet a regulatory requirement, specifically a quality assurance (QA) criteria to follow quality-related procedures, which had more than minor safety significance. The finding was assigned a crosscutting aspect of resources in the Human Performance area because the licensee failed to ensure that personnel, equipment, procedures, and other resources are available and adequate to support nuclear safety. Specifically, the procedure that set the coil spring gap lacked sufficient detail and rigor to ensure that the coil gap would be set appropriately by the technicians. [H.1] (4OA3.1)

Junk Plant Pilgrim: Ocean Temp too Hot Now (Again)

update 8/17

So the Ocean hot water will intensify and wane during the tide cycle, but slowly trend up. Pilgrim has seen the ocean temperature slowly trend up for weeks and they would have predicted it would lead to a shutdown or down power. The ocean temps will continue to trend up until the middle of September. I suspect we will see them in repeated shutdowns and down powers for another month or more. It will beat the hell out of the plant. This environment is rich with screw-ups and breaking equipment, it is highly likely they will get a plant trip or other accident.

Update:

Even with 80 degrees service water temp update, still think Millstone might have to come down in power. So there has been a tremendous drought this summer. All the fresh water going into the Sound has been drastically reduced through the drought. How will this effect the Sound's temps? 

Why won't Seabrook have this problem? They grab their cooling seawater through a under ocean tunnel many miles out to sea. 

I thought they upped their service water temperature high limit in a License Amendment Request (LAR). This seems to be a really strong high temperature event.  They are sitting at 50% last night, are they back washing the circ water system.

When did it last happen. This happens in the later half of Aug...

This has occured in Aug 2015 and July 2013.

Facility: PILGRIM Region: 1 State: MA Unit: [1] [ ] [ ] RX Type: [1] GE-3 NRC Notified By: KENNETH GOODALL HQ OPS Officer: VINCE KLCO	Notification Date: 08/15/2016 Notification Time: 17:48 [ET] Event Date: 08/15/2016 Event Time: 15:52 [EDT] Last Update Date: 08/15/2016
Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY 10 CFR Section: 50.72(b)(3)(v)(B) - POT RHR INOP 50.72(b)(3)(v)(D) - ACCIDENT MITIGATION	Person (Organization): DON JACKSON (R1DO)

Unit	SCRAM Code	RX CRIT	Initial PWR	Initial RX Mode	Current PWR	Current RX Mode
1	N	Y	70	Power Operation	62	Power Operation

Event Text

SALT SERVICE WATER SYSTEM DECLARED INOPERABLE "On Monday, August 15, 2016 at 1552 [EDT], with the reactor at [about] 70 percent core thermal power (CTP), Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station (PNPS) entered a 24-hour shutdown Limiting Condition for Operation Action Statement (LCO-AS) for Salt Service Water (SSW) inlet temperature exceeding the Technical Specification (TS) limit in TS 3.5.B.4. The LCO-AS was subsequently exited at 1651 hours when the temperature of SSW trended to below the TS limit. "Under certain design conditions, the SSW system is required to provide cooling water to various heat exchangers such as the Reactor Building Closed Cooling Water (RBCCW) and Turbine Building Closed Cooling Water (TBCCW) systems. When the inlet temperature to these supplied loads exceeds the 75 degrees F limit established in the TS, the SSW system is conservatively declared inoperable until the temperature trends below this value. This condition existed for approximately 60 minutes. "The SSW temperature is being closely monitored and trended on a continuous basis. "This event has no impact on the health and safety of the public. "The licensee has notified the NRC Senior Resident Inspector. "This notification is being made in accordance with 10 CFR 50.72(b)(3)(v)(B) and 10 CFR 50.72(b)(3)(v)(D) due to an event or condition that could have prevented fulfillment of a safety function. "The licensee will be notifying the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency."

Junk Nuke Company Entergy: 86% of Stocks Owned By Institutional Investers

Is this a sign of weakness or strength?

Entergy Corporation (NYSE:ETR)’s stock has been a favorite of “smart money” aka institutions, as of late.  Institutions are currently holders of 86.20% of the shares.  On the other hand, company insiders are holding 0.10%.  Entergy Corporation’s stock price currently sits at $79.25.

Junk Plant Watts Bar 1 With Sequoyah's LP Turbine UP To 95% Power

Highest power all summer?

Watts Bar 1	95
Watts Bar 2	0

Junk Plant Watts Bar 1 Pre-Operation Testing

Power Reactor	Event Number: 52177
Facility: WATTS BAR Region: 2 State: TN Unit: [ ] [2] [ ] RX Type: [1] W-4-LP,[2] W-4-LP NRC Notified By: MATTHEW MILLER HQ OPS Officer: DONALD NORWOOD	Notification Date: 08/13/2016 Notification Time: 08:51 [ET] Event Date: 08/13/2016 Event Time: 03:36 [EDT] Last Update Date: 08/13/2016
Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY 10 CFR Section: 50.72(b)(3)(iv)(A) - VALID SPECIF SYS ACTUATION	Person (Organization): SCOTT SHAEFFER (R2DO)

Unit	SCRAM Code	RX CRIT	Initial PWR	Initial RX Mode	Current PWR	Current RX Mode
2	N	N	0	Hot Standby	0	Hot Standby

Event Text

AUTOMATIC START OF TURBINE DRIVEN AUXILIARY FEED WATER PUMP "On August 13, 2016 at 0330 EDT, Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Unit 2 (WBN2) was being stabilized following a pre-planned reactor trip. Both motor driven auxiliary feed water pumps and the turbine driven auxiliary feed water pump (TDAFW pump) were in operation maintaining steam generator water level 6 - 50 percent in accordance with the Reactor Trip Response Procedure. "At 0333 EDT the TDAFW pump was secured by procedure and steam generator water level lowered to the Low Low Alarm setpoint (17 percent). The trip time delay

Testing the TDAFW pump.

at 0 percent power is three (3) minutes. At 0336 EDT, the TDAFW pump automatically started with steam generator water levels less than the Low Low alarm setpoint (lowest level reached was 15 percent). "Steam generator water level was restored to the normal shutdown control band (38 percent). "Unit 1 remains in Mode 1 at 85 percent. "Unit 2 is stable in Mode 3 with normal shutdown power alignment. The reactor coolant system is being cooled down to 400 degrees F for a planned maintenance period, with decay heat removal via the Main Condenser Steam dumps and the AFW system. "This event is being reported pursuant to 10 CFR 50.72(b)(3)(iv)(A). "TVA has notified the NRC Resident Inspector."

Junk Watts Bar 1 Hasn’t Exceeded 90% Power Since End Of May 2016

Update according to the NRC

Watts Bar has troubles with their low pressure turbine. Bet you it was blading erosion. So they swapped out their LP turbine with Sequoyah's LP turbine. I asked if it had a LAR on it. Resident said its not safety related...I'd disagreed with him. Basically the Sequoyah LP turbine is poorly designed for the Watts Bar Unit 1 duty. The Sequoyah LP turbine doesn't draw sufficient energy out of the steam...too much core energy (thru the SG) is overloading the main condensers. Basically not enough circ water leading to the high condenser back pressure. The plant now has a very poor mile per gallon rate.  

He wondered how I came upon the information. Told him I got it from the daily power history. The NRC queried me concerning this wondering if a employee got me to pose the question to the NRC.

The top 10% power is the gravy money. These guys definitely hasn’t been profitable since May 2016.

Having condenser back pressure issues is code words for the plant isn’t designed for the climate. It usually means the heat sink- the stream or pond- is too hot for the condenser and plant design.

If they having problems keeping unit 1 up at 100% then I have little hope of they getting unit 2 into production.

These are the guys that intimidate their employees from making safety concerns.  

Hmm, the unit didn't have these issue last year. It seems like component problems...

(2013) Increasingly No Emergency Police Coverage In Hinsdale, NH

Originally posted on 10/18/13

Updated Jan 15, 2014: So in my court discovery over being arrested at the bridge...I got a read out of all my phone calls to 911 for years back from the police. This year (2013) I am what they call a "911 frequent flier". So I got in my possession proof that Hinsdales police were too busy to answer my missing toddler call. Got the dates and times.

Updated Oct 23

I had two personal incidents over delayed or missing police response in recent months

1)      About six month ago a neighbor was running around our house basically in a hysterical condition. Her three year old son was nowhere to be found. I looked around the area for 10 minutes...then called 911 saying a 3 year old child was missing. Fifteen minutes later made another wondering where the hell  are the police... then another 15 minutes call...told a police officer was handling another call. Forty five minutes later with a missing child call and still no police? I was shocked we didn’t get a big police response with a missing child plea.

2)      During my bridge incident the Brattleboro police made the initial investigation...the Hinsdale police were too busy to do the investigation.

Through those issues, I became aware this problem was much more prevalent in the minds of other citizens of Hinsdale.  

 My interview on High Street Hinsdale

Hinsdale: Gun And Murder Capital of SW New Hampshire

Oct 20

"So why is the Hinsdale police department so mismanaged? Why the continuous stream of police officers coming in and out of Hinsdale employment? Why are we wasting so much money on new hire training? Why have we got dependent on outside police department coverage? Why is a selectman and ex-police chief working in an emergency manner as a regular policeman? Why can’t the department anticipate the loss of police officers...have fully trained new cops up and running before the crises? Why do we have two new hires up in police training right now and the town police coverage in a perpetual crisis?

Do pre police just come to Hinsdale to make us pay for their training and get first experience...then move on to a better paying and stable police department? Do we pay them enough so the police department is stable?

What is the magnitude of out of town police officers...current police who don’t live in town...that makes it so hard for us to call them for an emergency because they live so far away? Do we pay them an adequate overtime pay? Do Hinsdale police officers cover for Chesterfield? Are our town making do with less police officers in the aims of saving money with this sharing system and this make us all more brittle and unstable with call times, general and issues resource...such as a murder investigation?

What are the implications of a lot of part time police officers...we can’t interrupt their primary job for an emergency call in?

This is police mismanagement on a grand scale...somebody can’t keep police coverage stable and reliable. So why is the Hinsdale police department so mismanaged? Why the continuous stream of police officers coming in and out of Hinsdale employment? Why are we wasting so much money on new hire training? Why have we got dependent on outside police department coverage? Why is a selectman and ex police chief filling in an emergency manner as a regular policeman? Why can’t the department anticipate the loss of police officers...have fully trained new cops up and running before the crises? Why do we have two new hires up in police training right now and the town police coverage in a perpetual crisis?

Do pre police just come to Hinsdale to make us pay for their training and get first experience...then move on to a better paying and stable police department? Do we pay them enough so the police department is stable?

What is the magnitude of out of town police officers...current police who don’t live in town...that makes it so hard for us to call them for an emergency because they live so far away? Do we pay them an adequate overtime pay?

What are the implications of a lot of part time police officers...we can’t interrupt their primary job for an emergency call in?

This is police mismanagement on a grand scale...somebody can’t keep police coverage stable and reliable."

Emergency Police Service (911) Blackouts inHinsdale NH

"10/19/2013: So I put this blog entry up yesterday and the Hinsdale PD was checking in on me this mourning into seeing if I felt alright.

I published this entry yesterday (10/18/2013) at 5pm.

Increasingly No Emergency Police Coverage In Hinsdale

..."Don't forget to click on my interview with a Hinsdale resident on High Street Hinsdale.

He was a school buddy of of Dustin Curtiss.

... Within 12 hours on putting up this blog entry I was probed by the Hinsdale police for a possible DUI.

Lord knows I am a big sinner...but I haven't had a sip of booze in 33 years.

I am a recovering alcoholic who is always one sip of booze away from not being home for Christmas..."

..."Well, I was probed by a Chesterfield police officer patrolling in Hinsdale...filling in for a overwhelmed Hinsdale Police force."

... "I'd rather be crazy than drunk?"

... "Hinsdale Police: Message Received and Understood This morning (Saturday Oct 19, 2013@ 9 am).

We documented our police was on duty for a emergency 911 call at 6:16 am. I have the evidence we had police coverage. A police officer pulled me over for not dimming my light. I never seen police officer as I dealing with a more pressing issue of fixing a fogged front window. At least they don’t arrest me over another littering “Build New Bridge".

After you made me piss my pants again thinking I got another phony bench arrest...I got hearty laugh. I thought, oh well, it will only be a day and a half in the slammer. It was actually hilarious once my heart stopped cavitating and my pulse rate then became measurable again. Do you guys still got a sense of humor?

The wet spot on my cady’s seat happened when the officer put on his emergency lights at the corner of Monument Road and Route 119.

These guys do have a terrific sense of humor because it was a Chesterfield’s police officer and he used Chesterfield's warning citation paperwork...

See the warning ticket at my blog."

... "Again, this policeman was very nice to me. He talked to me in a very nice manner. Remember Gallagher wanted to supply his police officers with personal recorded cameras. The micro camera would be on the officer’s person, as with a microphone recording our behaviors.

I thought it was a great idea...

So the car in front of me stopped, I stopped, then i slowly accelerated like a old man rolling through the stop sign. The road were mostly abandoned on saturday and 6 am...

The freakin cop was sure alert earlier in the mourning...

Effectively it was a good stop on the aims of police work...it is just the context that bothers me.

I actually don't mind them stopping me and making sure I am not drunk driving or involved in bigger illegal activity in any other times. If I was drunk and driving...I don't care what the police motivation is...I deserve being taking off the road and facing the court system. They would be fundamentally helping me regain control of my addiction...looking out for my best interest."

... "This is one of the way I’ve learned to stay sober...I actively sabotage the drinking Mike Mulligan. I announce to everyone I am a serious alcoholic. If the drinking mike mulligan again shows up...I need you to help me regain my control of my addiction because I might not realize how bad the situation is. You need to sabotage the drinking Mike mulligan in any way possible...the sober and mindful real mike mulligan gives you permission to do whatever it takes!

Don't pat me on the back like a good little boy...be as mean as possible to help me see the light of day. This is a battle over or for the preservation of human life! Do it for my children and grandchildren."

... "Does anyone get it, if a police officer catches me driving drunk just once...I’d probable have been driving dead drunk between 100 to 300 times in the past. In my case, I had probably been driving thousands of time dead drunk and many of them in blackout. I am such a threat to my community!"

..."Please, don’t listen to me when I am drunk. I swear to god, I promise you ...if a police officer ever catches me driving drunk again...it might take me months. But one day I will walk into your police station and request to speak to the arresting police officer. I will look sincerely in your eyes, apologize to you if I was rude when I was drunk...I will thank you for saving my life. I will thank you for arresting me.

That is how you stay sober for 33 years with this terrible disease..."

... "One scenario is the Hinsdale police are going head hunting for me. They thought, it would be kind of uncivil if we are arrested him after all this blogger stuff. So they set it up where the Chesterfield police would patrol around my house. Maybe Hinsdale policeman briefed his Chesterfield police buddy by cell phone about the Mulligan situation.

I was riding a old 1989 red Cadillac Deville...this car stands out like a sore thumb. Got one headlight stronger than the other, clouded lens...it’s a typical alcoholic’s car. Me out early Saturday (06:15) mourning...must be coming home or leaving from a big Friday night bender.  

I was out doing a favor for another person taking him to work in Putney Vermont. It has been a regular deal for many months...so I established a pattern.

So the cops just needed any old probable cause...the poor usually got tons of probable cause issues surrounding their lives. This cop got the probable cause with the dimmed headlights...went fishing for drunk driving charge. 

When I got to into my car...it was dark and foggy. I usually on a Saturday don’t meet a soul on the Hinsdale road. The roads are curvy and hilly on Plain Road, it is a narrow road...thus my high beams were on. As my windows were getting foggier, I was trying to the figure out what button to push. I haven’t used this car very much in the last six months. I do remember passing one car on Monument Road...I didn’t recognize it as a police car.

I have had issues with getting an inspection sticker. The last two cycles I’ve been months late in getting a new sticker. I had a good sticker on in this. I know I would just get a warning. On my passage on Plain Road and Monument Road over the years...we very seldom see any police offers. I am just saying this is a example where cops ignore minor violations often?"

..."I am telling you guys, you are god dam lucky I am a seasoned whistleblower.

I can see an event through multiple perspectives...

..I am at the stop sign at Monument Road and route 119. A car is in front of me. I glide through the stop sign with a right hand turn...I am heading to Brattleboro at 6:16 am on a Saturday (10/10/2013). I think I got a pretty consequential entry on my blog criticizing the Hinsdale police department. Publish it not 12 hours earlier. I captured the bigger story behind it.

I make the turn when a police cruiser emergency lights turn on out of nowhere. I immediately think holy shit; this is my McNairy County Tennessee and Sheriff Pusser moment. What the hell have they got on me now to arrest me? The issues I recorded from the citizens of High street are ringing in my ears...one I put up on my blog. I am thinking you got to control your temper and keep your cool.

I fumble about the car trying to figure out how to turn on my ceiling light on. I want the cop to be able to clearly see where my hands are and everything in the front seat. I see the cop getting close; I open up my driver door telling him my window doesn’t work. I spit out, is it ok to open up my door. He says sure.

He immediately gives me a little information speech I never heard before. I just got arrested by these guys, never heard this during that. He says this stop is being recorded by camera and voice. I tell him I don’t mind that at all...I welcome it. I say, it’s for your protection as well as mine. He pops off nicely...you don’t hear that too often. I get a lot guff because we are doing that. You know then, the license and registration, sir. He explains you didn’t dim your headlights on Plain Road when I passed you. Then you didn’t stop at the stop sign. I say “sorry”. Mr Mulligan, where are you off to this morning. I say I am picking up a friend in Brattleboro to take him to work. He’s got his head almost in my car seeing if he could smell alcohol. He was a really nice guy doing his job. He heads back to his car. I say to myself, hope I don’t have in more bum warrants out to arrest me. I saying more to myself, brace yourself this could be a very expensive ticket.

I leave my door open. It takes about five minutes...it felt like one hundred years. I hear him approaching the door...he says here you go and I see sheets of paper in his hand. He hands my license and reg. I thought I was getting a ticket. Then he says strangely, I am a Chesterfield police officer. Than when my mind starts going wild thinking Jesus Christ I just wrote about this last night on my blog. That is when he pops off, you are getting a warning. He then says, you got two new hire police officers in training at Concord, that why Chesterfield police department is filling for them. I get a thank you Mr. Mulligan. I give him back a thank you officer. Well, that’s most of what we talked about." 

... "It could be:   

 1) Coincidence. I don’t believe in coincidences.

2) Hinsdale police out to get me.

3) Local police trying to talk with me hoping I’d get the bigger picture out to the public of resource problems in the police department.

10/19: So I put this blog entry up yesterday and the Hinsdale PD was checking in on me this mourning into seeing if I felt alright. I published this entry yesterday (10/18/2013) at 5 pm.

10/18: Increasingly No emergency Police Coverage In Hinsdale, NH

My interview on High Street Hinsdale

I interviewed this person a few houses away from the murder scene of Dustin Curtiss. He grew up with Dustin and went to school with him. He said Dustin did very well at  school and everyone in the neighborhood loved Dustin. He was a very good and calm child.

He also said Dustin was severely and systemically physically and emotionally abused by his father. The father use to beat and punch him all the time...right in front of Dustin’s friends. All through his young life he has black and blue marks put on him plus many bruises. by his father. It is common knowledge Dustin and his father had a tumultuous relationship throughout childhood.

1)    We need an independent report on the emergency availability of the Hinsdale police coverage and how often do we use police coverage from surrounding communities.  Is the overwhelmed Hinsdale police force increasingly becoming a burden to the surrounding communities?

2)    A time evaluation of all 911 calls for emergency services in Hinsdale and then when did the police actually arrived on scene for the last five years.

3)    A town wide independent survey with how our community perceives our police force and does the community trust that the police will quickly respond to any emergency phone call.

4)    Request from the community all information in which the police didn’t respond quickly to any 911 calls and especially any emergency 911 calls.

There are rumors out there that the police didn’t respond in a timely manner to the first 911 call coming from the Curtiss House or their neighbors.  

OMG First Time This Summer: Hope Creek, Salem 1 & 2 all at 100% Power

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Junk Plant Salem 2: Back To The grid After prolonged Leisurely Summer Vacation.

At 85% power. It was snowing out when all three units were at 100%.

Junk Plant Susquehanna Heading For A Disaster With Equity Firm Ownership

update 8/4

Welcome to the swamp:

Talen Energy Corporation (NYSE: TLN) reported this morning a Net Loss of $3 million for the three months ended June 30, 2016, compared with Net Income of $26 million for the three months ended June 30, 2015, and Adjusted EBITDA of $132 million, compared with $171 million for the three months ended June 30, 2015.

The Net Loss in the second quarter includes an after-tax, non-cash asset impairment charge of $122 million related to the proposed Bell Bend nuclear power plant project. Although the project's Combined Operating License Application remains on file, licensing and permitting activities are suspended, and Talen Energy has no plans to resume them.

For the six months ended June 30, 2016, Talen Energy reported Net Income of $148 million, compared with $122 million for the six months ended June 30, 2015, and Adjusted EBITDA of $367 million, compared with $408 million for the six months ended June 30, 2015.  

Susquehanna are very old plants. The model for this is more plant scams, shutdown and increased NRC attention.

I wouldn't be surprised to see employee sabotage of all sorts... 

Talen Energy laying off 131 workers at Pennsylvania sites

July 22, 2016

Associated Press

BERWICK, Pa. (AP) — Talen Energy plans to cut 53 jobs at a central Pennsylvania nuclear power plant, and dozens of other jobs at other facilities around the state.

Company spokesman Todd Martin says the jobs will be cut at the Susquehanna Power Plant in Salem Township, near Berwick. That’s about 80 miles northeast of Harrisburg.

Another seven workers who support the plant but are based in Allentown are being cut, too. The plant has about 1,100 workers.

The cuts also include 29 workers at Talen’s Montour Steam Electric Station near Washingtonville, and 42 jobs at its Brunner Island plant in York County.

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1600 was notified of the cuts on Tuesday and has 10 days to review whether the cuts are in accordance with workers’ seniority.