Quadrillions Of Dollars In Damages And Millions Of Souls Lost: A Country Totally Lost?

By 2030 or 2040 we will see how phony green energy and carbon taxes are. It is just selfish people feeding their faces and caring not a wit about the future. We will look back and wonder why this 2019 population were so  spiritually impoverish. 

I sent this to the NRC.  

Mike Mulligan <steamshovel2002@gmail.com>

Mon, Jan 7, 8:35 PM



to Marjorie


"Hello, Mr. Mulligan,

Thank you very much for your message. I did provide the concern you pointed you about the availability of the 2019 reactor status data to our Information Technology staff in NRC HQ. I’m glad you have a work-around that you can use until we get that addressed. I also provided your message to our regional office attorney for his evaluation to enter your message into ADAMS.

VR,

Marjey"

Thanks.

This email business today was all my fault. I never should have sent my message with Yahoo. Please send all future emails with Gmail. 

The "event notification report also doesn't have a 2019 link. 

I bet it was the "I love the USA" that sent my email to the lawyer : ) Let me know if I have to change something to get it in. I have gotten messages into Adams often. This seems non routine.

I could make the case the current political issue in relevant in this case and I know the NRC is highly sensitive to political and the news cycle. No matter how you frame it as you are a independent agency. I bet you I am the only one in the USA who would say our political tribulations and instability could make a major accident much worst. The results of the damage fuel might not be the costliest component. Because of political instability, the public and politicians might create overregulation in a hysterical reaction. The scenario I thinking about, we might recklessly shutdown all the reactors in the USA in just a few years. That would kill 20% of our grid capacity. It took us twenty years to replace all that electricity. We had riots, price spikes and electrical shortage and a continually collapsed stock market. Our president had to declare marshal law in order to save out tittering nation Of course, this will spill out to other nations. 

Then in a hundred years, a report might come out. If the USA went full nuclear in 2025, how much less would the results of global warming be? Why didn't you go full nuclear by 2025? You seen it coming. Well, we had a reactor accident in 2021. Our nation was in a very unstable condition. The generations in 2025 was traumatized by the nuclear accident and the news media overreactions. We had to wait till all the 2025 generations died before we could ever speak nuclear power again. The public just wouldn't let us build them again. Nuclear power was the third rail for the politicians.

Second Salem Plant Severely Threatened During Polar Vortex Emergency

How close to the precipice was NJ with a tremendous amount of grid capacity severely threatened during a Polar Vortex event. Salem 1&2 and Hope Creek are a three plant facility. The three plants are the second largest nuclear facility in the nation. Would there be blackout?

This three plant facility is heading towords perminant shutdown in a few years. Are they spending enough money on the facility???  

What about grid resilience???  

Power Reactor	Event Number: 53852
Facility: SALEM Region: 1     State: NJ Unit: [] [2] [] RX Type: [1] W-4-LP,[2] W-4-LP NRC Notified By: JASON MORGAN HQ OPS Officer: MARK ABRAMOVITZ	Notification Date: 01/31/2019 Notification Time: 04:23 [ET] Event Date: 01/31/2019 Event Time: 03:01 [EST] Last Update Date: 01/31/2019
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): BRICE BICKETT (R1DO)

Unit

SCRAM Code

RX Crit

Initial PWR

Initial RX Mode

Current PWR

Current RX Mode

2

M/R

Y

100

Power Operation

0

Hot Standby

Event Text

MANUAL REACTOR TRIP - CIRCULATING WATER ICING CONDITIONS "At 0301 [EST] on 1/31/19, with Unit 2 in Mode 1 at 100% power, the reactor was manually tripped due to icing conditions requiring the removal of 4 Circulating Water Pumps from service. The trip was not complex, with all systems responding normally post-trip. 21 CFCU [Containment Fan Cooler Unit] was inoperable prior to the event for a planned maintenance window and did not contribute to the cause of the event and did not adversely impact the plant response to the trip. An actuation of the Auxiliary Feedwater System occurred following the manual reactor trip. The reason for the Auxiliary Feed Water System auto-start was due to low level in a steam generator. Operations responded and stabilized the plant. Decay heat is being removed by the Main Steam Dumps and Auxiliary Feedwater System. "Due to the Reactor Protection System actuation while critical, this event is being reported as a four-hour, non-emergency notification per 10 CFR 50.72(b)(2)(iv)(B). This event is also being reported as an eight hour non-emergency notification in accordance with 10 CFR 50.72(b)(3)(iv)(A) as an event that results in a valid actuation of the Auxiliary Feed Water System. There was no impact on the health and safety of the public or plant personnel. "The NRC Resident Inspector has been notified." The icing condition was described as frazil ice. Unit-1 reduced power to 88% because one circulating water pump was shutdown.

US Nuclear Plants Woefully Unprepared for Polar Vortex

They should have started up the DGs once they entered Tech Spec in order to assure operability?

Power Reactor	Event Number: 53853
Facility: PRAIRIE ISLAND Region: 3     State: MN Unit: [] [2] [] RX Type: [1] W-2-LP,[2] W-2-LP NRC Notified By: DOUG LARSON HQ OPS Officer: MARK ABRAMOVITZ	Notification Date: 01/31/2019 Notification Time: 10:48 [ET] Event Date: 01/31/2019 Event Time: 07:43 [CST] Last Update Date: 01/31/2019
Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY 10 CFR Section: 50.72(b)(3)(v)(D) - ACCIDENT MITIGATION	Person (Organization): JAMNES CAMERON (R3DO)

Unit

SCRAM Code

RX Crit

Initial PWR

Initial RX Mode

Current PWR

Current RX Mode

2

N

Y

100

Power Operation

100

Power Operation

Event Text

BOTH EMERGENCY DIESEL GENERATORS INOPERABLE DUE TO LOW AIR TEMPERATURE "At 0743 [CST] on 1/31/2019, both trains of Unit 2 Diesel Generators were declared INOPERABLE due to outside air temperature exceeding the low temperature design limit for the diesel engines; therefore, this condition is being reported as an eight-hour, non-emergency notification per 10 CFR 50.72(b)(3)(v) for an event or condition that could have prevented the fulfillment of a safety function. The Unit 2 Diesel Generators are still able to start if necessary to provide power. Additionally, multiple layers of defense in depth measures are in place to ensure safety. Prairie Island has five sources of offsite power; all of which are currently available. The Unit 1 Diesel Generators are OPERABLE and capable of being cross-connected to Unit 2. Additional equipment capable of responding to beyond design basis events is available on site providing another layer of defense in depth. "Both Unit 2 Diesel Generators were returned to an OPERABLE status at 0810 on 1/31/2019 based on outside air temperature rising above the low temperature design limit with forecasted temperatures to remain above the low temperature design limit. "There is no impact on the health and safety of the public or plant personnel. The NRC Resident Inspector has been notified." The air temperature limit was -30 degrees Fahrenheit. Unit 1 was not affected. The EDGs were supplied by a different manufacturer with different air temperature limits.

Is Exelon A Russian Front Company Like The NRA

Does Exelon live in a different dimension than the rest of us? Isn't Russia ruining our political system and is expected to continue with that. Are't they trying to destabilize us? 

But these big utilities are special, they can do business with countries who are attacking us and destabilizing us. Could we charge the US nuclear utilites with sedition? 

Does Exelon have one whiff of a conscience. So the Russians are making big bucks off Exelon to spew fake news at us in the ends destabilizing the USA? These guys are so tone deaf, it makes you wonder if Exelon nuclear plants are safe. 

They are talking about a few test assemblies of accident tolerant fuel here. Would you trust any Russian fuel?

Of course, the real truth here is our US nuclear plants are fueled up prodominantly by Russian fuel for decades. Upwards of 90% of the power coming out of nuclear plants come from Russian uranium. It is much worst than foreign fuel, it is god damn Russian fuel. 

So the super secret highest national security question here is, what proportion of domestic nuclear plant power comes from Russian fuel for the last thirty years? List the proportion of Russian fuel for each nuclear utility. You thought the Clinton Russian uranium deal was big, this guy towers over that.

I got more interesting question for us. If Russia emediately cuts off Russian fuel to the USA, how will that effect our domestic nuclear plants and the Exelon? I fear the damage of this would be more expensive that a plant meltdown? How would it screw our ratepayere?

I like to poll that question to the public? Do you approve of russian uranium in US nuclear plants.             

Exelon Seeking Russian Nuclear Fuel for Illinois Power Plant (2)

Posted Jan. 31, 2019, 1:04 PM Updated Jan. 31, 2019, 4:33 PM

• Energy company seeking NRC permission to obtain nuclear power plant fuel from Russian subsidiary
• Fuel would be tested in Braidwood Generating Station near Chicago

Exelon Corp. is seeking permission from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to use accident-tolerant nuclear fuel from Russia for a nuclear power plant in Illinois.

The NRC is considering Exelon’s request to amend the license for its Braidwood Generating Station southwest of Chicago to allow the plant to use nuclear fuel called “lead test assemblies” from TVEL, a subsidiary of Russian state-owned nuclear power company Rosatom Corp. A public comment period on the...

The Polar Vortex Over Our Nuclear Plants?

update Jan 31

The is the second laterest nuclear facility in the USA. They are facing a permentant shutdown and everyone has been terrorizing the troops over this. 

Now the nuclear industry can't brag they were the superman over the polar vortex. This guy dropped in the polar vortex. What a disgrace. They should have had a employee manning the circ water trash screens. Waiting for the next one 

Power Reactor	Event Number: 53852
Facility: SALEM Region: 1     State: NJ Unit: [] [2] [] RX Type: [1] W-4-LP,[2] W-4-LP NRC Notified By: JASON MORGAN HQ OPS Officer: MARK ABRAMOVITZ	Notification Date: 01/31/2019 Notification Time: 04:23 [ET] Event Date: 01/31/2019 Event Time: 03:01 [EST] Last Update Date: 01/31/2019
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): BRICE BICKETT (R1DO)

Unit

SCRAM Code

RX Crit

Initial PWR

Initial RX Mode

Current PWR

Current RX Mode

2

M/R

Y

100

Power Operation

0

Hot Standby

Event Text

MANUAL REACTOR TRIP - CIRCULATING WATER ICING CONDITIONS "At 0301 [EST] on 1/31/19, with Unit 2 in Mode 1 at 100% power, the reactor was manually tripped due to icing conditions requiring the removal of 4 Circulating Water Pumps from service. The trip was not complex, with all systems responding normally post-trip. 21 CFCU [Containment Fan Cooler Unit] was inoperable prior to the event for a planned maintenance window and did not contribute to the cause of the event and did not adversely impact the plant response to the trip. An actuation of the Auxiliary Feedwater System occurred following the manual reactor trip. The reason for the Auxiliary Feed Water System auto-start was due to low level in a steam generator. Operations responded and stabilized the plant. Decay heat is being removed by the Main Steam Dumps and Auxiliary Feedwater System. "Due to the Reactor Protection System actuation while critical, this event is being reported as a four-hour, non-emergency notification per 10 CFR 50.72(b)(2)(iv)(B). This event is also being reported as an eight hour non-emergency notification in accordance with 10 CFR 50.72(b)(3)(iv)(A) as an event that results in a valid actuation of the Auxiliary Feed Water System. There was no impact on the health and safety of the public or plant personnel. "The NRC Resident Inspector has been notified." The icing condition was described as frazil ice. Unit-1 reduced power to 88% because one circulating water pump was shutdown.

***Can you imagine a big accident at any of these nuclear plants in this weather. Is the flex equipment qualified for -70 degrees"? At this time of the year, all these plants are supposed to be at 100%. 

Is the grid getting ready to collapse?

Why are some not? Can you even imagine battling at outside fire in these temps? Does the employees have the outside clothes for this kind of weather? Certainly these plants aren't designed for this kind of weather. Is a fire fightable in these conditions. 

Chicago Tribune: "Chicago grinds to a halt as polar vortex cold snap begins: 'Today's about as cold as it can get in Chicago".

I will be closely watching these guys for the next few days...

Region 3

Unit	Power
Braidwood 1	100
Braidwood 2	100
Byron 1	100
Byron 2	100
Clinton	98
D.C. Cook 1	100
D.C. Cook 2	100
Davis-Besse	100
Dresden 2	100
Dresden 3	100
Duane Arnold	100
Fermi 2	100
LaSalle 1	100
LaSalle 2	90
Monticello	93
Palisades	100
Perry 1	81
Point Beach 1	100
Point Beach 2	100
Prairie Island 1	100
Prairie Island 2	100
Quad Cities 1	100
Quad Cities 2

Note to Self

It will save you a lot of money. If you smell propane near the water heater, your propane tank is close to empty.

Troubles in Vogtle 3/4 affecting 1/2?

January 25, 2019

 SUBJECT: REISSUE – VOGTLE ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT – NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION INTEGRATED INSPECTION REPORT 05000424/2018002; 05000425/2018002; 05000424/2018502 AND 05000425/2018502

That Is All There Is

Have you ever seen a facet of the world through new eyes? I guess I could use "new senses" instead of eyes.
Here is one of the most substantial movies I've seen in recent times. Watched it last night. It plays with our typical stereotypes we got stored in our heads. The judgement on the quality of the people we got surrounding us, usually tribal in nature. Stereotyping people does have it place.
Movie: "An Acceptable Loss (2019)" 
They say you can only understand truth and the infinite universe through Poems and Songs. Our bibles knows this.
So a significant issue shows up to move you. It causes you to look back on past and currant issues now through a completely different perspective. The New Eyes.
Does President Trump have something with "alternate facts" (Alternate facts are a feature of the infinite and can also be spun for pollical purposes). Two opposing tribes line up the best facts available. Both are absolutely sure of their position, based on really expensively gained information. Both could absolutely prove their positions in a court of law. Both are absolutely right in the system they grew up in. A binary choice system in a infinite universe. 
The final overseer of these two tribes makes a choice, then carries out the position of one of the tribes that changes the world...
So the position of those opposing tribes are both right. The only way to see the greater truth, or the next better facet of the greater truth, is to carry out one of the position. You have to so called roll the dice on the best of two choices, based on the summation of all the events of your life. All the experiences of you life you choose to retain. Both positions carry the same value. This is the sole purpose of life. You have always been a Sojourner in a Foreign Land, and always will be one. We are on a voyage across the infinite.
From a whistleblower’s perspective, this new information is extraordinary valuable independent of my initial position and my foes position. Can you see it? Are we really foes or actual brothers and sisters?
'Battle Hymn Of The Republic'

I listened to this song all my life. I never really listened to the words. It is beautifully rendered in the closing credits of the movie. This is my new eyes moment. This song is usually played in a primitive religious setting. It usually is about going to war somewhere with somebody. I think the words are so much bigger and broader than any religion or ideology. You got to juxtapose the issues with the movie; with the issues of our Civil War in your head, with the contextuality of the times and its distribution when the hymn was written and the contextuality of our days right now. Who is John Brown? Who are you! Who are you in the exact moment of the decision? Are you the old mike or new mike? Are we the sojourner across the universe or stuck in place? What is your next best choice? That is all there is.
What does the contextuality with the words in the “Battle Hymn Of The Republic” mean for you in today's reality?
Are you sobbing and crying yet.
CAN YOU SEE IT?
"Since God Is Marching On"...
Quantum Mechanics.  (edited)

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I Know How To Get The Feds Back To Work

update Jan 25

New York (CNN)Air traffic is delayed at LaGuardia Airport in New York, Philadelphia International Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey due to staffing issues at a Federal Aviation Administration regional air traffic control center, according to the FAA status website.

Reposted from Jan 11

***You are going to have to have guts and will go down in infamy.

The FAA head says the system is not safe and declares publicly he is going to shutdown all airplane flights over the USA in 24 hours like 9/11. That will get these politicians off their ass.

Is it really that bad to get fired by Trump?

NRC to Public: Fukushima Never Happened.

Union of Concern Scientist(basically the UCS is a obsolete organization much like the whole nuclear industry)

So basically the political backfit rule is sacrosanct over science and engineering. The industry creates a set of safety-wise weakly engineered plants and the politicians come back with, it is now illegal to bring a plant up to the safe standard.   

Burns

Baran  

January 24, 2019

NRC Guts a Critical Safety Regulation, Recklessly Disregarding the Critical Lessons of the Fukushima Disaster 

Decision Will Leave U.S. Nuclear Plants Dangerously Vulnerable to Major Floods and Earthquakes


WASHINGTON (January 24, 2019)

—The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Republican majority, in a 3-2 vote, approved a stripped-down version of a rule originally intended to protect U.S. nuclear plants against extreme natural events, such as the massive earthquake and tsunami that triggered meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan in March 2011.

The commission majority struck a provision from the draft final rule the NRC staff recommended in December 2016 requiring plant owners to protect their facilities from the real-world hazards they face today instead of “design-basis” hazards that were estimated using now-obsolete information and methodologies when the plants were built decades ago.

The commission majority’s act will leave unresolved how the NRC will address new information showing that plants may experience bigger floods and earthquakes than they are now required to withstand. It is possible that the commission will not require all plant owners whose facilities face greater hazards to make structural upgrades.

“Nearly eight years after the Fukushima accident, the NRC continues to disregard a critical lesson: Nuclear plants must be protected against the most severe natural disasters they could face today—not those estimated 40 years ago,” said Dr. Edwin Lyman, senior scientist and acting director of the Nuclear Safety Project at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

After Fukushima, an NRC task force recommended that the NRC “order licensees to reevaluate the seismic and flooding hazards at their sites … and if necessary, update their design basis and SSCs [structures, systems and components] important to safety to protect against the updated hazards.”

To date, the NRC has only implemented the first part of the recommendation: Owners have reevaluated seismic and flooding hazards. What they found is not reassuring. For instance, the flooding reevaluations revealed that roughly two-thirds of U.S nuclear plants face hazards beyond what they were originally designed to handle, including higher flood levels from extreme precipitation, upstream dam failure and storm surge. The reevaluated flood height for local intense precipitation for the Palisades plant in Michigan, for example, was more than 25 feet higher than the level considered in the plant’s original design. Similar concerns were identified in many seismic risk evaluations.

Despite these findings, the NRC failed to implement the second part of the task force recommendation to require plant owners to strengthen their defenses against greater hazards. The rule that was approved today was originally intended to close that gap. The commission majority’s action today removed that requirement and will simply maintain the uncertain—and inadequate—status quo.

“The NRC must require plant owners to upgrade their facilities based on the best current information, the most realistic analyses, and the potentially devastating impacts of increased flooding from climate change,” said Dr. Lyman. “Failing to do so will leave some nuclear plants dangerously unprepared and needlessly invite disaster.”

PSEG: Nuclear Plants Will Soon Close Without Subsidies

Second largest nuclear facility in the USA. They have long ago started reducing the maintenance budgets on these pigs.

PSEG: Nuclear Plants Will Soon Close Without Subsidies
01/24/2019 | Darrell Proctor

Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) has again told New Jersey officials it needs subsidies to continue operating its three nuclear power units in the state, reiterating that without financial help it will begin closing its Hope Creek Generating Station and Salem Nuclear Power Plant as early as 2022.

The three reactors are the only remaining nuclear units operating in New Jersey, after the closure of the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in September of last year.

New Jersey regulators on Jan. 22 published applications sent by PSEG to the state’s Board of Public Utilities (BPU) in December, in which the company said it should qualify for as much as $300 million in yearly subsidies, or zero emissions credits (ZEC), under the state’s ZEC Act, which was approved in May 2018. Gov. Phil Murphy (D) signed legislation that requires the BPU to establish a program to help maintain the state’s nuclear plants, as part of the effort for the state to reduce carbon emissions by 80% by 2050.
Permanent Closure Within Three Years

PSEG in its letter to the BPU regarding Hope Creek said, “As demonstrated in the materials and certifications provided to the Board as part of this application, PSEG has determined that it will permanently close Hope Creek within three years, absent a material financial change, as this plant is not projected to cover the hundreds of millions of dollars in annual expenditures required for safe operation and the inherent risks of running a nuclear power plant.” The utility said the same thing in its letter asking for subsidies for the Salem plant...