New Startup For Junk Plant Grand Gulf

March 9
Grand Gulf is down to 90% and River Bend is up to 87% I see we hit the spring outage time nationwide...

March 8 Now River Bend is at 14% and restarted...

March 4
So now Grand Gulf is down to 78% power. Its first big downpower since startup. River Bend is shutdown.

March 3
Much congratulation to Grand Gulf with staying up at 100% for two or three days. But now River Bend is down to 24% power...

March 1
Grand Gulf has been at 100% for days now. I doubt they will get by March without another trip. But now River Bend is in trouble. They came up slowly from their recent scram. They have been banging around 80-90% for many days now. Something was preventing them coming up to 100%. Today they are down to 24%. I have done this all to highlight the erratic and unreliable nature of Entergy...

Feb 21
Ok, so now Grand Gulf is at 100% power. So it took them 18 days to get to 100% power from startup. An atrocious amount of time.

River Bend: They have been stuck at 90% for days. The operations of these plants indicated they are highly erratic and unreliable operations. They are in quick decline...

Feb 20
I read the wrong columb. Grand Goof is a 93 power. Will they even get to 100% power before they trip.

Grand Gulf is finally at 100% power. Just think of this, it took at least 17 days for the plant to come up to 100% power. How is that good for a vital and critical societal need?

River Bend has been is stuck at 90% power
Fed 19

Grand Gulf is finally at 100% power
River bend is stuck at 90% FOR DAYS!!!!.

Jan 16
Grand Gulf 83%
River Bend 90%

Why has River Bend been stuck at 90% for 24 hours...

Update Jan 15
Hold your breath, Grand Gulf is near their peak power level (91%) last startup...

Grand Gulf  85%

River Bend 90%

Update Jan 14
Hmm, River Bend is pulling a Grand Gulf?

Grand Gulf  83%
River Bend 65%

Update Jan 13

Grand Gulf  63%
River Bend 85%

See this is driving me crazy. Why did Grand Gulf take a deep 22% drop in power, while River Bend is maintaining around 80% power? Why is Grand Gulf so unstable.

Update Feb 12

Jan 12 76% power

Jan 11 74%

Jan 10 55%

River Bend started up on Jan 10 (1% power) and is 81%

From the evidence, I just don't think it is a xenon problem. It might be some of it. I think something is going with the core or fuel.

Notice the event date and power level? The inner and outer airlock doors are supposed to be shut and tested before startup. It is not supposed to be opened until the next shutdown. On the far side of inner airlock door sits the reactor core. It is really radioactive inside that door. They had to open the door for a problem inside containment. I wonder if they actually went through the inner door a power? It is very abnormal. The failed seal in the inner door, they should have picked it up on the pre startup seal testing. I did leak rate testing on these doors all the time. They were inches thick metal door for employee radiation protection. The doors were very heavy. It took a lot of heft just to close the doors... I don't think a girl could close doors :)

Power Reactor	Event Number: 53201
Facility: GRAND GULF Region: 4 State: MS Unit: [1] [ ] [ ] RX Type: [1] GE-6 NRC Notified By: BRANDON STARNES HQ OPS Officer: DONALD NORWOOD	Notification Date: 02/10/2018 Notification Time: 22:37 [ET] Event Date: 02/10/2018 Event Time: 18:35 [CST] Last Update Date: 02/10/2018
Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY 10 CFR Section: 50.72(b)(3)(v)(C) - POT UNCNTRL RAD REL	Person (Organization): HEATHER GEPFORD (R4DO)

Unit	SCRAM Code	RX CRIT	Initial PWR	Initial RX Mode	Current PWR	Current RX Mode
1	N	Y	68	Power Operation	70	Power Operation

Event Text

BOTH INNER AND OUTER CONTAINMENT AIRLOCK DOORS INOPERABLE AT THE SAME TIME "On 2/10/18 at 1835 CST at Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, while the 208 ft. Containment Airlock Outer Door was tagged-out for planned maintenance, the 208 ft. Containment Inner Door was determined to be inoperable. Grand Gulf had performed 06-ME-1M23-R-0001, Personnel Airlock Door Seal Air System Leak Test, on the 208 ft. Containment Airlock Inner Door which had been deemed satisfactory. While performing planned maintenance on the outer door an additional review of the paperwork determined that the test was actually unsatisfactory on the inner door. TS 3.6.1.2 Condition C was entered at 1835 CST on 2/10/18 for both 208 ft. Containment Airlock Doors being inoperable. Maintenance of the Outer Door is expected to be completed, and the airlock returned to operable status, prior to TS required action completion time." The licensee notified the NRC Resident Inspector.

Feb 9

Must be a xenon soak thing. Up 3% to 70%.

River Bend is still 0% from last scram.

Feb 8

67%

Feb 7

Still at 26%. So we are already at a highly abnormal startup. They just weren't ready for power operation...

River Bend is still shutdown.

Feb 6

Stuck at 26% for 24 hours. The fun begins.

Feb 5 26%

Feb 4 17%

Feb 3 1%

Junk Plant Grand Gulf Another Scram: Homeless People Running the Plant

I made a mistake, My mind can't fathom the depth of what is going on at Entergy in the first swipe. So Grand Gulf has stayed shutdown. The power ascension of River Bend was ended with a scam.   

I know what they did wrong! They increased power to 100% too quickly (humor).

This is probably a instrumentation problem or employees inproperly calibrating the instrumentation. There is greater than a slight chance of reactor damage.

The Plant is in bad shape. There were two failure points here. Two things were broke or were mis-operated. What tripped the recirc pump and the flow indication problem. They made it a very fragile plant. Nobody really knows the extent of degraded and broken equipment at this facility.  

Power Reactor	Event Number: 53192
Facility: RIVER BEND Region: 4 State: LA Unit: [1] [ ] [ ] RX Type: [1] GE-6 NRC Notified By: Timothy Gates HQ OPS Officer: VINCE KLCO	Notification Date: 02/01/2018 Notification Time: 14:23 [ET] Event Date: 02/01/2018 Event Time: 10:57 [CST] Last Update Date: 02/01/2018
Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY 10 CFR Section: 50.72(b)(2)(iv)(B) - RPS ACTUATION - CRITICAL	Person (Organization): RICK DEESE (R4DO)

Unit	SCRAM Code	RX CRIT	Initial PWR	Initial RX Mode	Current PWR	Current RX Mode
1	M/R	Y	27	Power Operation	0	Hot Shutdown

Event Text

MANUAL REACTOR SCRAM "At 1057 CST on February 1, 2018 with the unit in Mode 1 at approximately 27% power, a manual actuation of the Reactor Protection System (RPS) was initiated due to an unexpected trip of the B Recirc Pump with A Recirc Pump in fast speed. B Recirc Pump tripped during transfer from slow to fast speed resulting in single loop operation. Operators were unable to reconcile differing indications of core flow. This resulted in a conservative decision to initiate a manual scram. The cause of the B Recirc Pump trip and the apparent issues with core flow indication are under investigation. The plant is currently stable in Mode 3. "The plant response to the scram was as expected. All control rods [fully] inserted as expected; the feedwater system is maintaining reactor vessel water level in the normal control band and reactor pressure is being maintained with steam line drains and main turbine bypass valves. "The NRC Senior Resident [Inspector] has been notified."

The Beginning of the River Bend Startup Watch-1% Power Today

Feb 2

This article implies I see broad weaknesses in Entergy's southern Fleet. I was trying to give Entergy the benefit of doubt. But the "startup watch" indicated I thought this might be a shaky and prolonged startup. Instead we got a quick scram. 

This is probably a instrumentation problem or employees inproperly calibrating the instrumentation. There is greater than a slight chance of reactor damage.

    

Power Reactor	Event Number: 53192
Facility: RIVER BEND Region: 4 State: LA Unit: [1] [ ] [ ] RX Type: [1] GE-6 NRC Notified By: Timothy Gates HQ OPS Officer: VINCE KLCO	Notification Date: 02/01/2018 Notification Time: 14:23 [ET] Event Date: 02/01/2018 Event Time: 10:57 [CST] Last Update Date: 02/01/2018
Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY 10 CFR Section: 50.72(b)(2)(iv)(B) - RPS ACTUATION - CRITICAL	Person (Organization): RICK DEESE (R4DO)

Unit	SCRAM Code	RX CRIT	Initial PWR	Initial RX Mode	Current PWR	Current RX Mode
1	M/R	Y	27	Power Operation	0	Hot Shutdown

Event Text

MANUAL REACTOR SCRAM "At 1057 CST on February 1, 2018 with the unit in Mode 1 at approximately 27% power, a manual actuation of the Reactor Protection System (RPS) was initiated due to an unexpected trip of the B Recirc Pump with A Recirc Pump in fast speed. B Recirc Pump tripped during transfer from slow to fast speed resulting in single loop operation. Operators were unable to reconcile differing indications of core flow. This resulted in a conservative decision to initiate a manual scram. The cause of the B Recirc Pump trip and the apparent issues with core flow indication are under investigation. The plant is currently stable in Mode 3. "The plant response to the scram was as expected. All control rods [fully] inserted as expected; the feedwater system is maintaining reactor vessel water level in the normal control band and reactor pressure is being maintained with steam line drains and main turbine bypass valves. "The NRC Senior Resident [Inspector] has been notified."

Update Feb 1

20%

***1% today. 

I expect these guys to come right up to 100%. 

Grand Gulf Senior NRC Resident Inspector Sits In Utter Awe Of My Capabilities!!!

update Feb 2

I made a mistake. Grand Gulf remained shutdown. It was River Bend that scrammed. 

The NRC and their oversite program just can't control these guys. This is unprecedented!!!!! 

Power Reactor	Event Number: 53192
Facility: RIVER BEND Region: 4 State: LA Unit: [1] [ ] [ ] RX Type: [1] GE-6 NRC Notified By: Timothy Gates HQ OPS Officer: VINCE KLCO	Notification Date: 02/01/2018 Notification Time: 14:23 [ET] Event Date: 02/01/2018 Event Time: 10:57 [CST] Last Update Date: 02/01/2018
Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY 10 CFR Section: 50.72(b)(2)(iv)(B) - RPS ACTUATION - CRITICAL	Person (Organization): RICK DEESE (R4DO)

Unit	SCRAM Code	RX CRIT	Initial PWR	Initial RX Mode	Current PWR	Current RX Mode
1	M/R	Y	27	Power Operation	0	Hot Shutdown

Event Text

MANUAL REACTOR SCRAM "At 1057 CST on February 1, 2018 with the unit in Mode 1 at approximately 27% power, a manual actuation of the Reactor Protection System (RPS) was initiated due to an unexpected trip of the B Recirc Pump with A Recirc Pump in fast speed. B Recirc Pump tripped during transfer from slow to fast speed resulting in single loop operation. Operators were unable to reconcile differing indications of core flow. This resulted in a conservative decision to initiate a manual scram. The cause of the B Recirc Pump trip and the apparent issues with core flow indication are under investigation. The plant is currently stable in Mode 3. "The plant response to the scram was as expected. All control rods [fully] inserted as expected; the feedwater system is maintaining reactor vessel water level in the normal control band and reactor pressure is being maintained with steam line drains and main turbine bypass valves. "The NRC Senior Resident [Inspector] has been notified."

Update

The NRC got to stop fooling around with these guys. You want them to be another ANO? They are a still a barely functional organization four years after entering the worst plant category. GG needs a long term shutdown. Entergy needs to taste this punishment. GG needs to massively upgrade their plant with new equipment.  

***Well, the Turbine Control valves aren't a secondary system? 

Yesterday I called my senior resident buddy at Grand Gulf. He got promoted. It was his last day at the plant. He is going to be boss of a set of inspectors in region I. He was leaving the plant

Junk Entergy Plant Grand Gulf At 17%, And Their Southern Regional Problem

Junk Plant Grand Gulf: Extraordinary Erratic Startup From Last Refueling Outage 

permanently at noon. We talked extensively about the erratic operation of Grand Gulf for years and specifically about the current erratic thirteen day startup from the last scram or shutdown. I believe out talk was completed at about 10 am yesterday. So about eight hours after our conversation another scram sets in. I mean, these two events are a extraordinary coincident.       

Power Reactor	Event Number: 53188
Facility: GRAND GULF Region: 4 State: MS Unit: [1] [ ] [ ] RX Type: [1] GE-6 NRC Notified By: RALPH FLICKINGER HQ OPS Officer: DONG HWA PARK	Notification Date: 01/30/2018 Notification Time: 21:56 [ET] Event Date: 01/30/2018 Event Time: 18:22 [CST] Last Update Date: 01/30/2018
Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY 10 CFR Section: 50.72(b)(2)(iv)(B) - RPS ACTUATION - CRITICAL 50.72(b)(3)(iv)(A) - VALID SPECIF SYS ACTUATION	Person (Organization): RICK DEESE (R4DO)

Unit	SCRAM Code	RX CRIT	Initial PWR	Initial RX Mode	Current PWR	Current RX Mode
1	M/R	Y	91	Power Operation	0	Hot Shutdown

Event Text

MANUAL REACTOR SCRAM DUE TO MAIN TURBINE LOAD OSCILLATIONS "On 1/30/2018 at 1750 [CST], the Reactor Pressure Control Malfunctions ONEP [Off Normal Event Procedure] was entered due to main turbine load oscillations of approximately 30 MWe peak to peak. At 1822 [CST], a manual reactor scram was inserted by placing the Reactor Mode Switch in Shutdown due to continued main turbine load oscillations. "Reactor SCRAM ONEP, Turbine Trip ONEP, and EP-2 were entered. Reactor water level was stabilized at 36 inches narrow range on startup level and reactor pressure stabilized at 933 psig using main turbine bypass valves. "Reactor Water Level 3 (11.4 inches) was reached which is the setpoint for Group 2 (RHR to Radwaste Isolation) and Group 3 (Shutdown Cooling Isolation). No valve isolated in these systems due to all isolation valves in these groups being in their normally closed position. The lowest Reactor Water level reached was -36 inches wide range. "No other safety system actuations occurred and all systems performed as designed. "That event is being reported under 10CFR 50.72(b)(2)(iv)(B) as any event or condition that results in actuation of the Reactor Protection System (RPS), when the reactor is critical and also reported under 10CFR 50.72(b)(3)(iv)(A), as any event or condition that results in actuation of RPS." The MSIVs are open with decay heat being removed via steam to the main condenser using the bypass valves. Off site power is stable, and the plant is in a normal shutdown electrical lineup. RCIC (Reactor Core Isolation Cooling) was out of service for maintenance, and the reactor water level did not reach the system activation level. The cause of the main turbine load oscillations being investigated. The licensee notified the NRC Resident Inspector.