What Is This?

Is it a temporary screwup or a permanent change? I am going with it is a temporary misfire for now.

Power Reactor Status Report for June 12, 2018

UNEVALUATED INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE FACILITY

On this page:

• Region 1 Reactors
• Region 2 Reactors
• Region 3 Reactors
• Region 4 Reactors

Region 1

Unit	Power

Region 2

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Region 3

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Region 4

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Notes:

• Reactor status data collected between 4 a.m. and 8 a.m. each day.
• All times are based on eastern time.
• Additional plant status information is made available on the web page after 28 days.

 

First Time NRC's Commissioners Up To Full Strength Since 2014

First Time NRC's Commissioner Up To Full Strength Since 2014. More of the same!!! Nome of these guys have actually held a worked in a position in a nuclear plant. 

Senate confirms Caputo, Wright, and Baran to serve as US NRC commissioners

Washington (Platts)--24 May 2018 643 pm EDT/2243 GMT

The US Senate confirmed Thursday, by unanimous consent, the appointments of Annie Caputo and David Wright to serve

Dave is a corrupt South Carolina politician and no nuclear power deep experience.  Annie is owned by Exelon, basically only worked for politicians as a coffee girl. They are pathetically weak on the dirty inside work at a real nuclear plant.    

five-year terms on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and confirmed Commissioner Jeff Baran for a second five-year term.

Caputo and Wright will join Baran, Chairman Kristine Svinicki, and Commissioner Stephen Burns on the five-member commission, which now has no vacancies for the first time since then-Chairman Allison Macfarlane resigned in December 2014 to take an academic position at George Washington University.

The Senate confirmation avoids the commission losing its quorum June 30, when Baran's current term expires.

President Donald Trump nominated Caputo and Wright to the commission in May 2017 and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works approved their nominations in July. But a vote by the full Senate on the nominations was delayed by months, in part because Senate Democrats wanted to ensure Baran was also nominated for another term and that the three nominees were voted on as a single package. Trump nominated Baran in September.

Under the Atomic Energy Act, there can be no more than three NRC commissioners from any single political party, and they serve staggered five-year terms. Svinicki, Caputo and Wright are Republicans. Baran is a Democrat and Commissioner Stephen Burns is an independent. Burns' term ends June 30, 2019. Svinicki's term ends June 30, 2022.

Caputo, a nuclear engineer, is majority senior policy adviser for nuclear issues for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee that oversees NRC. Before joining committee staff, Caputo worked as a staffer for the House of Representatives' Energy & Commerce Committee and, prior to that, she was congressional affairs manager for Exelon.

Wright is the owner of Wright Directions LLC, a strategic consulting and communications business. From March 2004

Lucky he is not in jail over the Summer nuclear fiasco? He hails from one of the most corrupt system and state oversight organizations.  

until June 2013, he served as a commissioner on the South Carolina Public Service Commission and was the PSC's chairman from July 2012 to June 2013. Wright also us former president of the Southeastern Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. Wright was president of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners in 2011-2012. --Steven Dolley, steven.dolley@spglobal.com

Westinghouse Asked Summer To Withhold Documents To Protect The Vogtle New Build

All I can say, when is the army of FBI ants going to show up a Vogtle? You got to know, the southern company is shitting their pants over the possibility.

I thought the NRC was treating my vogtle complaint extremely strangely over Summer's non qualified engineers and fraudulent safety parts installed at Summer NRC complaint, which is identical to the as yet disclosed Vogtle non qualified engineers and installed fraudulent safety parts. I told them Summer's problem are identical to the non disclosed Vogtle problems. A honest dummy could put it together!!!      

"SCE&G misled lawmakers about critical nuclear report, state agency says"

"The Regulatory Staff filings support concerns by lawmakers that SCE&G was not truthful with elected officials."

SCE&G executives misled S.C. legislators about why a report was commissioned to investigate troubles at the failing V.C. Summer nuclear expansion project, state regulators say.

In sworn testimony to lawmakers last fall, Kevin Marsh, then chief executive of SCE&G and its parent company SCANA, told legislators the Bechtel Corp. was hired to complete a study on problems at the ill-fated project to help prepare for a possible lawsuit against Westinghouse, the project's lead contractor.

Because the report — kept secret until after the V.C. Summer project collapsed — was part of an anticipated lawsuit, it could remain confidential from regulators, legislators and the public, utility officials told legislators last fall.

However, in filings late Wednesday with the S.C. Public Service Commission, regulators at the state Office of Regulatory Staff said the Bechtel report was put together to assess what was going wrong with the construction of two new nuclear reactors northwest of Columbia, not to support a lawsuit.

"There are substantial circumstances, and previously secret communications and documents that show the owners did not hire Bechtel" in anticipation of a lawsuit against Westinghouse, Regulatory Staff said in Wednesday's filing.

Matthew Richardson, an attorney for Regulatory Staff, said in a written statement, “Documents we have discovered indicate SCE&G has been more interested in protecting its profits than the customers.''

The Regulatory Staff filings support concerns by lawmakers that SCE&G was not truthful with elected officials as they held public hearings into the failure of the massive nuclear project.

The Regulatory Staff filings are part of the agency's effort to obtain thousands of pages of SCE&G records that it says could justify cutting power bills for 700,000-plus SCE&G customers, who still are paying for the failed nuclear project. Among those records are documents related to the Bechtel report. Wednesday's filings ask the PSC to force release of SCE&G records.

“One of my biggest concerns all along was that the utilities, SCE&G and Santee Cooper, were not being completely straightforward with us,’’ said state Sen. Shane Massey, R-Edgefield. “They were misleading us.’’

More: More secrecy at SCE&G? Utility won't give up V.C. Summer records, state agency says

State Rep. Peter McCoy, R-Charleston, said the Regulatory Staff findings reinforce concerns "that they did not want (information) getting out under any circumstances.''

Instead, SCE&G was scrambling to protect "their bottom dollar,' said McCoy, who — like Massey — was on a legislative committee that investigated the nuclear debacle.

SCE&G spokesman Eric Boomhower disputed criticism leveled at his company by the ORS.

"When the full story of Bechtel report is made public, it will be clear that the assertions by ORS are invalid and misleading,'' Boomhower said in an email Wednesday night. "Because of serious legal and regulatory limitations, we are not at liberty to debate these issues in the public arena at this time. We look forward to the time when the complete story will be available to everyone. ​''

In Wednesday's filings, Regulatory Staff cited a memo from the chief executive at SCE&G's junior partner in the V.C. Summer project, the state-owned Santee Cooper utility, saying the Bechtel report "never" was "intended to position (V.C. Summer's) owners for litigation."

The agency also cited another memo from Santee Cooper saying suing Westinghouse, V.C. Summer's lead contractor, would not accomplish much. That was because SCE&G and Santee Cooper had agreed they could recover no more than $150 million in a lawsuit unless they could prove fraud. When abandoned last July, the decade-long V.C. Summer expansion project already had cost far more — roughly $9 billion.

More: FBI agents flock to VC Summer site as part of probe into SC's failed nuclear project

Documents released Wednesday by Regulatory Staff indicate the Bechtel report was kept confidential at the insistence of Westinghouse. Westinghouse wanted protection from legal liability at another nuclear construction project that it was in charge of, the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion effort in Georgia, records show.

Another Problem At Dead Ender Palo Verde?

Is facility operations becoming more erratic?  

  

Power Reactor	Event Number: 53424
Facility: PALO VERDE Region: 4 State: AZ Unit: [ ] [2] [ ] RX Type: [1] CE,[2] CE,[3] CE NRC Notified By: DAVID HECKMAN HQ OPS Officer: HOWIE CROUCH	Notification Date: 05/23/2018 Notification Time: 17:37 [ET] Event Date: 05/23/2018 Event Time: 11:28 [MST] Last Update Date: 05/23/2018
Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY 10 CFR Section: 50.72(b)(2)(iv)(B) - RPS ACTUATION - CRITICAL	Person (Organization): JASON KOZAL (R4DO)

Unit	SCRAM Code	RX CRIT	Initial PWR	Initial RX Mode	Current PWR	Current RX Mode
2	A/R	Y	100	Power Operation	0	Hot Standby

Event Text

AUTOMATIC REACTOR TRIP ON LOW DEPARTURE FROM NUCLEATE BOILING RATIO "The following event description is based on information currently available. If through subsequent reviews of this event additional information is identified that is pertinent to this event or alters the information being provided at this time a follow-up notification will be made via the ENS or under the reporting requirements of 10CFR50.73. "On May 23, 2018, at approximately 1128 Mountain Standard Time (MST), the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station (PVNGS) Unit 2 control room received reactor protection system alarms for low departure from nucleate boiling ratio and an automatic reactor trip occurred. Prior to the reactor trip, Unit 2 was operating normally at 100 percent power. Plant operators entered the reactor trip procedures and diagnosed an uncomplicated reactor trip. All CEAs [control element assemblies] fully inserted into the core. No emergency classification was required per the PVNGS Emergency Plan. "The Unit 2 safety-related electrical buses remained energized from normal offsite power during the event. There was no impact to the required circuits between the offsite transmission network and the onsite Class 1E Electrical Power Distribution System; the offsite power grid is stable. "No major equipment was inoperable prior to the event that contributed to the event or complicated operator response. Unit 2 is currently stable in Mode 3 with the reactor coolant system at normal operating temperature and pressure. The cause of the reactor trip is under investigation. "The event did not result in any challenges to fission product barriers and there were no adverse safety consequences as a result of this event. The event did not adversely affect the safe operation of the plant or the health and safety of the public. "The NRC Resident Inspector has been informed of the Unit 2 reactor trip." Decay is being removed via steam dumps to condenser. Units 1 and 3 at Palo Verde were unaffected by the transient and continue to operate at 100 percent power.

Welfare for Hope Creek/Salem: Well, It Is Market Collusion Between The Nukes and Solar folks

So both the nukes and greenies went to the NJ politicians for welfare. That is how they got the votes. This nuke bailout wouldn't have happened if they didn't garner the greenies votes also. The nukes are on the way to throw their greeny buddies a bone. How high do you want your electricity to go with everyone colluding their ass off. This is just going to spread to the other market players. Why compete ,when we can make more profits by everyone colluding. 

Why aren't the coal and natural gas boys and girls involved in this grand collusion...

SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Legislation that would authorize $300 million annually to rescue New Jersey's nuclear energy industry — a request for financial help made by the state's largest utility company — was signed into law Wednesday.

Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy alongside lawmakers at a solar array in central New Jersey also signed a measure aimed at strengthening the state's renewable energy goals. The nuclear measure will be funded by ratepayers; the cost of the renewable energy legislation is unclear...

Hinsdale's Bridge Angel...I got my halo on???

Hinsdale-Brattleboro bridge in imminent state of collapse


Why does that railing keep failing....

Bridge pictures 

New post on the way. Called everyone!!!

Troubled ANO 1: Stuck At 15% For Two Days And Their Recent Scram

May 29
67% Today. Kinda  slow startup.

May 25

37%

May 24

stuck at 37%

update May 23

There you go, 37% power.

***Just saying, a lot of components failing in recent days. It is all supposed to be fixed during the outage before the startup.

FBI Agents Flock to Summer, Vogtle Next

At the end of it all, where was the NRC in heading off this tragedy. Effectively, the southern separatist states turned off the NRC. In many ways, the NRC is more lenient in the powerful republican separatist state. That is why they choose this area to build these plants.      

The FBI and the courts won't be to figure out what is going on. Neither the prosecutors or the judges have enough training to independently understand what is going on. They will be wholly dependent on the nuclear industry experts. Think about it, these nuclear experts will never work in the industry again because of blackballing. Half ass experts is what they will get. The whole lot of them has been under extremely anti government training all their careers. The so call experts won't be the cream of the crop.     

'FBI agents flock to VC Summer site as part of probe into SC's failed nuclear project' 

Avery G. Wilks, The State Published 12:36 p.m. ET May 16, 2018 | Updated 3:18 p.m. ET May 16, 2018

COLUMBIA — Up to 19 FBI agents and U.S. Department of Justice officials were in Jenkinsville last week, looking at two unfinished V.C. Summer nuclear reactors as part of an ongoing federal investigation into the failed project.

It is unclear exactly what the FBI agents — 16 to 19 of them, according to a state agency — were doing at the Fairfield County site, which SCE&G and Santee Cooper abandoned last July after nearly a decade of work that cost $9 billion.

But their presence shows the federal probe into the failed project is ongoing.

"Typically, the FBI goes to a construction site to validate ... things they have found in documents or testimony," a source familiar with legal actions surrounding SCANA, SCE&G's parent company, told The State on Tuesday. "They probably had an expert with them."

The U.S. attorney's office in South Carolina did not respond to a request for comment.