Is The Same Going On In Vogtle, as in VC Summer?

Update: 

I was right...non professional engineers at Vogtle. They just admitting it and back a few days ago Allegations gave me call asking me for more information. The southern co stock price seemed to tanked on the news yesterday.  


Republished from 9/26

Update The gist of my complaint. 

 Sorry, it seems like my spell checker wasn’t working when I wrote it. Please use this version. All I did was correct the spelling

Mike Mulligan <steamshovel2002@gmail.com>	3:21 PM (5 hours ago)
to OPA, R1ALLEGATION, R2Allegations

The addition NRC email address, OPA Resource, is me trying to get the NRC blog to write up a article concerning Summer and Vogtle's non licensed engineers. 

“Is The Same Going On In Vogtle, as in VC Summer?’

https://steamshovel2002.blogspot.com/2017/09/is-same-going-on-in-vogtle-as-in-vc.html

We need a short description with what occurred at the Summer site on the non licensed engineer signoffs. We also need a comparison between Summer and Vogtle sites over the non licensed signatures. Are they similar, or is one worst than the other.

Request the Vogtle 3 and 4 site be shutdown until the non licensed engineer issue is straighten out. Does Vogtle 1 and 2 have the same problem?

Mike Mulligan  

Hinsdale, NH

Update

Melanie,

CC’ed on this email is Mike Mulligan, a concerned citizen who called the NRC Allegation hotline today. I have included him on this email so he can respond with a link to a newspaper article that is relevant to his concern.

Mr. Mulligan stated that he received a call from an Engineer who works at Vogtle, who claimed that they have the same problem as what is going on at  VC Summer: Non-licensed engineers are signing off on safety-related diagrams/paperwork that should be signed off by licensed engineers.

In addition to the email address listed on cc, you can contact Mr. Mulligan at (603) 336-8320.

If you need anything else from me do not hesitate to reach out.

Sincerely,

Nicole Warnek

Sr. Allegation Coordinator

610-337-5222 (Region I Safety Hotline)

800-432-1156 x5222 (Hotline, Toll Free)

So why isn't this going on in the Vogtle New build? I made a Allegation complaint to region II. I got a call from a from a Vogtle engineer saying the same was going on in his plant.

Stamped for failure: Westinghouse and SCANA usedunlicensed workers to design abandoned S.C. nuclear reactors

• By Andrew Brown abrown@postandcourier.com

Andrew Brown

Sep 24, 2017 Updated Sep 25, 2017

COLUMBIA — Westinghouse and other contractors used unlicensed workers to design parts of two nuclear reactors in South Carolina, a potentially criminal shortcut that raises fresh questions about why the multibillion-dollar energy project failed. 

Documents obtained by The Post and Courier show construction drawings for the unfinished reactors were used at V.C. Summer without having them vetted and approved by professional engineers. 

In South Carolina and most states, every drawing for a large building project demands the stamp and signature of a licensed engineer — especially when that construction affects the public’s health and safety. Not following that law can lead to criminal penalties. 

But as the nuclear expansion got underway north of Columbia, neither state nor federal officials were told that unlicensed workers were crafting blueprints and conducting complex engineering calculations. This left professional engineers questioning the entire construction process that wasted $9 billion before it was cancelled in July.

The practice contributed to thousands of design revisions, construction setbacks, schedule changes and the ultimate demise of the reactors, those engineers said. 

“You literally can’t make up the errors that were propagated in this thing," said one engineer from V.C. Summer, who asked not to be named for fear of retribution. "I’ve never seen anything like this in my life. It was beyond comprehension. They enshrined incompetence.”

The nation turned its attention to South Carolina as Westinghouse and two of the state's largest utilities attempted to complete the first reactors built in the United States in decades. The endeavor promised to usher in a new age of nuclear power.

Instead, the project became a crater of debt that left electric customers on the hook for a squandered investment larger than the state's $8 billion annual budget.

Two legislative committees, South Carolina's attorney general and federal authorities have launched investigations into the failed project. 

It remains unclear exactly who was producing the unlicensed designs that led to problems, what education they had, where they were from or what their professional backgrounds were. 

But if you’re building a potentially dangerous nuclear reactor, V.C. Summer engineers argued, you should have certified professionals designing it — people willing to stand by the drawings they attach their name to. 

High stakes

It may not be well known outside the industry, but the licensing of engineers is a long-held and widespread practice that has a direct, if often unrealized, impact on everyone’s lives.

Roads, office buildings and new manufacturing facilities — professional engineers are required to oversee and sign off on drawings for nearly every large construction project in South Carolina. It protects the public and ensures people get what they pay for.

You want competent people designing the bridges you drive over, the dams located above your home and the nuclear plants in your backyard.

Texas’s engineering law was passed in 1937 after 295 students and teachers were killed at a school by a natural gas explosion caused by a faulty gas connection.

“The stakes are high,” said Arthur Schwartz, the deputy executive director and general counsel for the National Society of Professional Engineers. "That’s what engineers do. They’re responsible for systems and processes that the public relies on and probably takes for granted.”

A college degree doesn’t make someone a licensed engineer. It takes hours of rigorous testing and years of work under the guidance of experienced people before anyone can call themselves a “professional engineer.”

The new Westinghouse reactors offered a huge opportunity for professional civil, mechanical, electrical and nuclear engineers in the United States.

It was their chance to take part in something that hasn’t been accomplished in roughly three decades. It was an opening to showcase their abilities on a project intended to rebuild the country’s nuclear workforce.

In the years leading up to construction of four Westinghouse nuclear reactors in South Carolina and neighboring Georgia, executives with the 131-year-old company touted the safety features of the new AP1000 design. They celebrated the reactors’ unique modular construction. They promised it would eliminate schedule delays and budget overruns.

But designing and engineering a new nuclear power plant is a huge undertaking.

SCANA, the majority owner of the two South Carolina reactors, had convinced politicians and state utility regulators of the merits of nuclear power by the beginning of 2009. Westinghouse had cleared most of its high-level design for the reactors with federal nuclear regulators.

The details of what bolts needed to be installed, where electrical wires would run and how pipes would be configured, however, had yet to be worked out. It meant tens of thousands of drawings and blueprints needed to be designed, reviewed and approved before they went into the hands of ironworkers, electricians and pipefitters.

To make sure the drawings were done properly, professional engineers needed to review the documents and attest to their accuracy. The drawings had to be created by a licensed engineer or by someone under their direct supervision, according to state law.

Either way, the drawings required a signature to ensure people could determine which engineer designed those sections of the reactor in case something went wrong.

The problem was, no one state agency was tasked with collecting and reviewing all of those plans. The state Board of Registration for Professional Engineers doesn't have the legal authority to inspect engineering worksites, and the NRC does not get into that level of detail in its review.

The federal regulators were primarily concerned with the conceptual designs for the reactors, not the detailed blueprints and intricacies of South Carolina’s engineering laws.

That left the door open to potential shortcuts. 

'Subject to interpretation' 

By the spring of 2012, before the nuclear reactors started rising out of the South Carolina and Georgia clay, Westinghouse attorneys were hard at work drafting a legal opinion.

It was a little over a month after SCANA received its delayed construction license from the NRC. Already, the South Carolina project had fallen behind the generic schedule that utility executives supplied to state regulators in 2009.

Trees had been cleared. Roads had been built. Huge holes had been excavated.

Pressure was building on the engineering side of things. Only 40 percent of the construction-ready design was reportedly complete. The deadline for federal tax credits loomed. SCANA had finally given the order to start pouring concrete and erecting steel.

But you can’t build something as complicated as a nuclear reactor without drawings in hand.

Amid this backdrop, SCANA’s leadership approached Westinghouse’s team. They asked the Pennsylvania-based company to provide an opinion of whether state engineering laws had to be followed when assembling the reactors.

In response, Westinghouse’s deputy general counsel drafted a 13-page legal opinion on May 7, 2012, arguing the engineering laws in South Carolina, Georgia and any other state where an AP1000 reactor was built didn't apply. They reasoned their federal licenses superseded state requirements.

Westinghouse’s vice president of engineering for new plants, the company’s director of engineering and procurement and its director of federal licensing for the AP1000 were all given a copy of the document. The director of nuclear engineering for Shaw, one of the original contracting companies, also was looped in. 

But Santee Cooper, the minority owner of the South Carolina reactors, was never notified of Westinghouse's opinion, according to officials with the state-run utility.   

The need for professional engineers to approve all of the reactor designs was a waste of time and money, Westinghouse's attorneys said. Getting the required stamps and signatures for the reactors at V.C. Summer and Plant Vogtle in Georgia would only "disrupt and frustrate," they said.   

Some drawings for the reactors did have to be handed over to state agencies such as the Department of Health and Environmental Control. 

In those cases, Westinghouse’s lawyers assured SCANA that everything would be done by the book. All of the office buildings and storage garages at the construction site that were reviewed by state regulators would be designed and approved by professional engineers, the attorneys said.

Not so for the nuclear reactors that are 30 miles away from South Carolina’s capital.

The setup was comparable to a hospital arguing it didn’t need doctors with medical licenses to treat patients, or a law firm hiring people who didn’t pass the bar to represent clients. It costs less money, but there are far fewer guarantees in the quality of the work.

The legality is even more questionable.

With no precedent in South Carolina, Westinghouse’s deputy general counsel warned her legal opinion could be “subject to interpretation.”

Troublemakers

As SCANA comforted utility regulators about increased budgets, temporary schedules and delayed completion dates, engineers said managers with Westinghouse and the Cayce-based utility ignored the concerns of some of their own professional staff.

Blueprints that were “issued for construction” started showing up at the southern tip of the Monticello Reservoir with so many flaws nearly every drawing was revised on site.

By the summer and fall of 2015, an estimated 600 engineering changes were made per month, according to an audit produced by Bechtel, the country’s largest civil engineering firm.

Some of those design changes required more paperwork than the original drawings, Bechtel employees found. It was suspected that Westinghouse’s design work was barely outpacing construction. The drawings, the audit found, were "often not constructible." 

The constant revisions made work for thousands of laborers even harder, and helped stall the build. Daily construction orders for craftsmen were held up. Requests for supplies would have to be rushed when the work plans were finally handed out. 

The reams of design changes, the Bechtel audit found, made it difficult for those construction employees to know if they were working off the right blueprints. 

It wasn’t until concrete was poured that workers realized a Westinghouse designer in Pittsburgh had doubled the amount of rebar needed in part of the power plant's foundation.

The steel reinforcing rods were so tightly packed that when workers poured the concrete for a section of the turbine building the slurry didn't flow properly. It left bubbles and empty spaces in the floor — a mistake that cost millions of dollars and months to fix.

The engineers at V.C. Summer did what they could to fix the problems as the designs arrived, but when several of them realized drawings weren’t officially "sealed," the issue became more serious.

A large part of the civil engineering designs that lay out the steel and concrete at the plant were stamped, engineers told The Post and Courier. That wasn't the case for the mechanical and electrical blueprints that outline the reactors' pipes, pumps, fans and electrical systems.

Concerns about the unlicensed engineering were raised up the chains of command in both Westinghouse and SCANA in past years, engineers said, only to be slapped down by more senior management. 

“It put us in a terrible situation,” one engineer said, “because if we raised the issue we’re tagged as troublemakers.”

SCANA and Westinghouse did not answer questions about the alleged complaints. 

Delays, incorrect parts, thousands of engineering changes, and billions of dollars in wasted money can be traced back to faulty drawings produced by unlicensed people working in Spain, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, those V.C. Summer engineers said.

“Everything else on this project was incompetence. This was criminal,” said another engineer who also asked to remain anonymous.

'Race to the bottom'

By the beginning of this year, the weight of the nuclear construction in South Carolina and Georgia was sinking Westinghouse and its parent company Toshiba.

Westinghouse, a business founded before light bulbs spread to every home and power lines webbed across the country, filed for bankruptcy at the end of March after contributing to a $9 billion loss for the Japanese conglomerate.

The bankruptcy left the utilities in South Carolina with a decision to make: Do you continue to build the reactors without your primary contractor? Or do you cut your losses and dump the projects that were already years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget?

SCANA’s executives were told the fully integrated construction schedule that had been promised by Westinghouse didn’t exist.

Only 30 percent of the reactors were complete. The inaccurate designs had contributed to less than 0.5 percent of the reactors being built every month, engineers said.

It was the leaders of state-run Santee Cooper that ultimately decided the South Carolina construction couldn’t continue. SCANA’s executives relented. Lawmakers responded with disgust.

Since then, SCANA's knowledge of the unlicensed engineering has remained unquestioned in front of two special legislative committees. Westinghouse’s decision to disregard state law has gone unrecognized as the energy industry continues to assess the dimming future of nuclear power in the United States. 

The NRC requires the reactor vessels, coolant pumps and other vital nuclear components manufactured for the reactors to be designed by professional engineers, agency officials said. 

But the federal government doesn't have laws or regulations directly requiring the designs for the rest of the reactors be stamped and signed by licensed individuals. Those requirements are covered by the states, said Scott Burnell, a public affairs officer with the NRC.

Still, the companies building nuclear reactors in the United States are “always responsible for meeting relevant state and local requirements," Burnell said, 

Westinghouse and SCANA refused to answer whether they shared the 2012 legal opinion with the NRC, an outside law firm, the state attorney general or the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. They wouldn't say if anyone else had confirmed their legal position. 

Some of the design failures at V.C. Summer could have been picked up by engineering students in college, the engineers said.

The batteries that would maintain power for the reactors during an emergency were delivered to V.C. Summer, but were designed for the wrong electrical current. The giant, two-story-tall transformers arrived, but the multimillion-dollar electrical components were configured wrong. 

The shoddy drawings are what professional engineers refer to as a "root cause." It all stems back to the 2012 decision. 

“It was a race to the bottom," said one engineer. 

Tony Bartelme contributed to this report. 

Reach Andrew Brown at 843-708-1830 or follow him on Twitter @andy_ed_brown.

Incident At Junk Facility Millstone-Examples Why Violation Levels Nation Wide Are Drastically Declining

It is secret deregulation and neutering the agency by the utilities!!!

This LER on duel plant trip in the mid 2016. Why do they have so much troubles with the important lines surrounding Millstone. The NRC should have got a violation over unreliable power lines.

Millstone once had three unit at their sites. Basically if two of three line tripped, the remaining lines would quickly lead to an overload. If the line would have tripped, it would lead to a loss of all power to the site and a hard trip scram to three plants. Now we only have two operating plants. Basically they had a circuit that would automatically reduce the load or trip plants such off site line load to 1650 MWes. The idea here was they would keep at least one plant operating to supply emergency power to the scammed plant. The NRC caught them in the dual plant special inspection they illegally removed this protection circuit because Millstone worried that if that circuit failed it would inappropriately scram a reactor.

1)Violation: Unreliable off site lines. 

2) Violation: Because of the heavy interest removing the circuit...the NRC should have made sure Millstone had adequate training and procedure for the next trip of two Line

3) Violation: threat of a two line trip or warnings, should have powered down 1650 MWe before any trip. 

4) Violation:  I don't see any crew briefing when they first took over the shift or when the first line was taken down...study up on what we have to do if the second line trips in procedures and this is how we anticipate doing if it occurs. 

5)Violation: Obviously something is wrong with simulator training. Is it modeled correctly and was there intense training on line trips and managing reactor in a emergency.

6) Not following boric acid procedures in a plant emergy 

The NRC based on 2014 duel plant trip special should have followed up...make sure

DOMINION NUCLEAR CONNECTICUT, INC. MILLSTONE POWER STATION UNITS 2 AND 3 LICENSEE EVENT REPORT 2014-006-00 MILLSTONE POWER STATION DUAL UNIT REACTOR TRIP ON LOSS OF OFFSITE POWER

Here is the new inspection. Boy, these guys got recently a lot of big LERs!!!

MILLSTONE POWER STATION – INTEGRATED INSPECTION REPORT 05000336/2017003 AND 05000423/2017003 

Annual Sample:  Unit 3 Rod Insertion Limit LO-LO Actuated During a Rapid Down Power to Support the Loss of Two Offsite Power Lines on August 14

a. Inspection Scope

The inspectors performed an in-depth review of Dominion’s cause evaluation and corrective actions associated with CR1068836 for an unplanned rapid power reduction on May 15, 2017.  Specifically, the loss of two 345kV offsite power lines caused Unit 3 operators to rapidly reduce power from 1127 MWe to 900 MWe as required by Technical Requirements Manual  3.8.1, “Electrical Power Systems,” to prevent grid instability.  

The inspectors assessed Dominion’s problem identification threshold, cause analyses, extent of condition reviews, compensatory actions, and the prioritization and timeliness of corrective actions to determine whether Dominion was appropriately identifying, characterizing, and correcting problems associated with this issue and whether the planned or completed corrective actions were appropriate.

b. Findings and Observations

No findings were identified.

On May 15, 2017, Millstone station experienced the loss of two 345kV offsite feeder lines and was directed by the grid operator to rapidly reduce station output power to 1725 MWe within 25 minutes.  Millstone Unit 3 entered TRM under requirement 3.8.1, action B, which required reducing total station output to 1650 MWe within 30 minutes.  Both units entered C OP-200.8, “Response to ISO New England / CONVEX Notifications and Alerts,” and coordinated the load reduction to achieve the required downpower.  Unit 3 entered AOP 3575, “Rapid Power Reduction,” and commenced a power reduction at 3 percent/min from 1267 MWe to 900 MWe.   Despite the fact that one offsite 345kV line was already out of service, Unit 2 and Unit 3 had not predetermined how much of the total power reduction would be shared by each unit if a second line was lost.  Coordination of this effort took 10 minutes to complete which caused a delay in starting the power reduction which could have been performed concurrently, and resulted in a shorter time (20 minutes) to reach the rapid power reduction target.   Upon entry into AOP 3575, the operators calculated and added an initial amount of boric acid that should be sufficient to complete the power reduction.  However, a recent change to AOP 3575 directed the operators to use a value for boric acid reactivity effectiveness of 15 (gallons of boric acid)/(percent power) which was appropriate for beginning of life, but was non-conservative for end of life reactivity conditions.  The correct value for end of life is approximately 18 gal/percent.  The operators correctly followed AOP 3575 and computed the amount of boric acid to be added based on the 15 gal/percent as directed and thus under-estimated the amount of boric acid to be added to maintain the shutdown margin by approximately 20 percent.   During the rapid power reduction, the control rods continuously inserted in automatic as designed.  The operators slowed the power reduction rate from 3percent/min to  1 percent/min at 1650 but did not increase the boration rate or add more boric acid despite the fact that the control rods were approaching the rod insertion limit (RIL).  Step 6.h of AOP-3575 requires the operators to monitor the rapid

Violation: they lost control of power. It should have been a violation on Unit 3 

downpower parameters and adjust (decrease) loading rate, boration time and flow rate, or rod position as necessary.  Although the operators reduced the power reduction rate, this change would have little effect on the final control rod position and approach to RIL as the RCS temperature deviation (Tave – Tref) was +4°F and control rods were stepping in rapidly.  As the control rods approached RIL, additional boric acid was required to be added to prevent exceeding the rod insertion limit which was a warning alarm for a pending loss of adequate shutdown margin.    

At 1658, Unit 3 reached the required target of 900 MWe and the “RIL LO” alarm annunciated.  The required action in AOP 3575, step 7.m, for this event is to “increase the boration flow rate”.  Although the initial rapid boration had been completed and should have been sufficient, the procedure directs the operators to immediately restart the boration to prevent the RIL LO-LO alarm.  At 1659, the RIL LO-LO annunciator alarmed.  The operators responded at 1703 by rapidly borating until sufficient additional negative reactivity was added so the control rods could be withdrawn to clear the RIL alarm, which occurred at 1705.  TS 3.1.3.6 requires the rods to be maintained above the RIL.  The action statement is to either restore rods above the RIL setpoint or reduce power to clear the RIL setpoint within two hours.  The operators entered TS 3.1.3.6 and restored the control rods above RIL within six minutes.   Two minor performance deficiencies were noted during this inspection.  The first involved procedure AOP 3575, which directed the operators to calculate a boric acid addition that should have been sufficient to complete the rapid downpower without control rods inserting below RIL alarms.  However, the procedure assumed beginning of life conditions in the core.  The core was operating at the end of life when the reactivity coefficients and power defect were different.  These differences resulted in an insufficient amount of boric acid being calculated and added to the RCS.  This procedural inadequacy was identified by the licensee in the apparent cause evaluation and was promptly corrected by a revision to AOP 3575.  

A second minor performance deficiency was identified by the inspectors. The inspectors noted that operators did not adequately control the reactivity balance during the power reduction.  AOP 3575, step 6.h requires the operators to monitor the rapid downpower parameters and adjust (decrease) loading rate, boration time and flow rate, or rod position as necessary.  The operators reduced the power reduction rate but did not add additional boric acid as the control rods approached RIL alarm.  Furthermore, steps 7.k, l and m, provided specific direction to immediately increase boration flow if the RIL LO alarm occurs during a power reduction that was requested by the grid operator.  Contrary to this direction, the operators did not address the need to add additional boric acid to the RCS to properly control the reactivity balance during the rapid downpower until after the RIL LO-LO annunciator had alarmed.  After the event, operators discussed this issue during the 4.0 crew debrief; however, the inspectors identified that this issue was not appropriately captured in the CAP and corrective actions associated with the event failed to address the operator performance issues concerning reactivity management.  However, the inspectors noted that appropriate corrective actions were taken to address this issue through changes to AOP 3575 and through changes made to operator training, which were addressed with a systematic approach to training, during training cycle 17-03, June 20 through August 11, 2017.  

Bankrupt FirstEnergy Going to Dump Four Nuclear Plants

Established in the Enron area. Do you think these plants are fully funded? Near bankrupt nuclear plants or dead ender plants should be on a special NRC watch list. Before this is over, we are going to  totally destroy a nuclear facility. Most of the corporations will rush to the door to dump their nuclear plants.     

FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC), a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., operates the corporation’s three nuclear power facilities: the two-unit Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station in Shippingport, Pennsylvania; the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio; and the Perry Nuclear Power Plant in Perry, Ohio.
Together, these facilities produce nearly 4,000 megawatts of electricity – nearly a third of our company’s generating capacity.

Natural gas prices are going to continue to decline.  

FirstEnergy will dump coal and nuclear regardless of what the federal government does to help, CEO says.   

Anya Litvak

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

alitvak@post-gazette.com

3:02 PM

Oct 27, 2017

The owner of Bruce Mansfield and Beaver Valley power plants in Beaver County have been meeting with creditors over the past several months to figure out how to restructure FirstEnergy’s competitive generation business. 

Chuck Jones, the CEO of Ohio-based FirstEnergy Corp., told analysts on Friday that discussions are ongoing with two groups of creditors that represent the majority of bond holders, as the subsidiary that operates most of FirstEnergy’s powerplants continues to weigh filing for bankruptcy.  

“In a restructuring scenario, the preferred outcome would be agreement with creditors,” he said.

Mr. Jones said neither he nor the corporate parent, FirstEnergy, have been involved in the discussions. So far, that has been handled by the board of directors of FirstEnergy Solutions, which runs the company’s power plants which aren’t covered by customer rates. 

FirstEnergy announced last year that it wants to transition into a fully-regulated company, where all of its operations are supported by ratepayers. 

“I want to be very clear,” Mr. Jones said on Friday. “We have no interest in maintaining generating assets that have commodity exposure and we’re moving forward with exiting the commodity-exposed business.” 

He made the declaration in response to a question from an analyst wondering if FirstEnergy might hold on to the plants if a proposal from the U.S. Department of Energy to fully reimburse coal and nuclear plants gets enacted.

“I don’t think there’s any connection between them,” Mr. Jones said. 

“I don’t think the DOE initiative has anything to do with FirstEnergy despite what’s been reported in some of the media,” he said. 

That was likely a reference to stories published by the Associated Press in August which referenced a letter that Murray Energy Corp. CEO Robert Murray sent to the White House. The letter sought emergency relief for FirstEnergy’s coal plants, which Murray supplies. 

It opened: “Last evening in Huntington, West Virginia, after President Donald Trump met briefly with Mr. Charles E. Jones, Chief Executive Officer of FirstEnergy Corporation and the undersigned, he turned to you and said ‘tell Cohn to do whatever these two want him to do.’” That is an apparent reference to economic advisor Gary Cohn.
In the same letter, Mr. Murray said that if the emergency declaration wasn’t forthcoming, Murray Energy would be forced to file for bankruptcy in October. 

Murray’s spokesperson Gary Broadbent said on Friday that the company has no plans to do so. 

“Indeed, Murray Energy is current with all of its debt payments and has liquidity,” he said, attributing the apparent turnaround to “regulatory reforms that have recently been enacted by the Trump Administration.” 

While the federal government rejected the emergency plea, the Department of Energy asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to hurry up and act on its proposal to subsidize coal and nuclear plants. 

FirstEnergy submitted a 3,614-page comment on the proposal, saying, “The urgency is real.” 

On the call with analysts Friday, Mr. Jones declined to speculate on how the DOE effort will turn out and assured that while the board of FirstEnergy Solutions will be paying attention to it, it won’t delay the process of getting rid of these unregulated powerplants.

Junk Plant pilgrim: Continued Unreliable SRVS

They replaced all the solenoid valves. One wonders if heat damage caused this. Are these guys type 1.

2 stage

LER 17-007-00

On April 24, 2017, during Refueling Outage 21 while performing testing on the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station (PNPS) Safety/Relief Valves, a high resistance was measured across the solenoid pilot valve coil of SV203-3A. This solenoid pilot valve was replaced during Refueling Outage 21. After the solenoid pilot valve was removed it was transported to an offsite vendor for additional testing.

President Elect Hillary Clinton and the USA's Electric Utility Nuclear Industry Establishment.

Update This was the first US and Russian uranium fraud before the Clinton uranium fraud. The whole uranium business is riddle with fraud

Originally published on Apr 25 2015

Clinton Cash: Hillary’s Spin Machine Can’t Shrug Off Uranium Scandal

Breitbart 

• The big issue out of this...more than 80% of the electricity produced by US nuclear power plants comes from foreign sources and most of it comes from Russia. What are the repercussion of this? 

• Why isn't it in our common lexicon that we know what powers up our national fleet of nuclear power plants…where do we get our uranium from?  

• The idea the utilities and the nuclear establishment dominates our news media, our political system…can keep the information secret where our plant uranium comes from because it reflects badly about the domestic nuclear plant industry. 

• The electric utility establishment, because of their size and it is a vital national security industry to the public and business, it totally dominates our news media cycle and our political system. They define what truth is in our society!

Fox/National review:

VIDEO:Sen John Barrasso: I Warned Pres. Obama about Uranium Deal with Russia Back in 2010 
Van Susteren: Is the Nuclear Regulatory [Commission] now giving the license for these particular exports to this Russian company? 

Barrasso: They have not given the — they were supposed to contact me immediately if there was even a request for a license to export — 

Van Susteren: Has there been a request?

Barrasso: Not that I know, but I know that uranium has left the country. They have a number of different companies and shell organizations . . .

Van Susteren: But not this — this Russian company hasn’t been able to take out the uranium, take it out of the country?

Barrasso: When you talk to people on the ground, uranium has left the United States. It has gone to Canada, has gone overseas and our concern is that it’s . . . at the fundamental of American uranium, 20 percent of our capacity here in the United States, and for nuclear power we need to import uranium. We continue to do that. 

Nuclear power provides about 20 percent of the electricity for our country. I think there’s an issue of national security as well as energy security, and I worry about Iran getting this uranium.

Mindless Gods Of Nuclear Nonproliferation

Ultimately what is going one here, these guys are saying we are saving the world from the ultimate destruction through many multiple detonations of giant hydrogen bombs …we are saving the world from the deaths of 5 billion people or more people. If you scrutinize us, it will drive the planet back to the Stone Age. It is altruism corruption on a giant hydrogen bomb level, many nuclear weapon explosions size. A full exchange of nuclear bombs by many big countries. 

If outsiders scrutinize this international uranium trading scheme and who really benefits disproportionally…the cost will be a nuclear bomb holocaust a trillion times the size of WWII Germany.

Ultimately what you are saying, the consequences are so dire to billions people… some special people and institutional priest people are so important, these guys are going to stop this unspeakable planetary catastrophe…these special people and organization are so important to the history of the planet, these guys have to remain unscrutinizable. Everyone dies in a hydrogen bomb planetary wide catastrophe if you see the sins of one of these god proliferation people doing the uranium bomb material trading. 

It is the ultimate unscrutinizable corruption scheme the planet has ever seen. 

You know what the problems are with the humongous powerful black box or stellar black hole USA, Russian governments and USA Electric Utility institutions are: the institution themselves are totally in control of the light shining out of the their institutions. We are talking big money to secret elites. It is only a tiny bit of light that escapes, it highly controlled weak light coming from these corrupt institutions. Who controls the institutions, it is the rich and elites. Nobody can contest these giant institutions.

• NY Senator Clinton: January 3, 2001 – January 21, 2009

• Obama elected on 2009

• Secretary Of State Clinton: January 21, 2009 – February 1, 2013

• So this money to the foundation was all taking place beginning in around 2004 and 2005.

• In the lead up to the spectacular 2008-2009 worldwide economic collapse, generally the stock price of our electricity utilities was in a historic bubble. Unimaginable increase in the price of the big utility stocks signaling a massive future increase in the price of electricity. Gasoline prices were going through the roof. We were in a dire shortage of natural gas and the price of this was just out of the world. We were seeing price spikes of natural gas that would choke a elephant. The high price of natural gas and its shortages, at that time, the price of natural gas set the price of electricity is the USA. 

• Everyone could see with the air pollution in China…China had to go big time for survive into nuclear power.

• Thirty USA nuclear plants were getting ready for “batters up”…in the spectacular new Nuclear Renaissance program.

• Everyone worldwide was thinking about building nuclear power plants until Fukushima

• We are talking about a huge demand of new uranium…

• The Megawatt to Megaton was in full swing…

• Was everyone was afraid the Chinese would consume all the uranium in the near future? 

• The price of electricity is skyrocketing unabated today and heading much higher...

• The problem with nuclear power today is its always been too speculative.

You get a whiff these giant institutions are rotting inside, but you never get enough evidence such that the elite institutionally controlled and privately owned 4th estate and news media never have enough triplicate proof (wink wink) to publish these highly secret stories. 

Are we really a transparent and modern democracy???    

The big questions my Clinton article ask: 

• The big issue: In 2013 greater than 90% of our domestic nuclear power plant electricity came from cheap Russian uranium. Have we switched over post "Megaton to Megawatt" program from (wink, wink) Russian nuclear weapons USA's electricity into Russian internal uranium mining, refining and centrifuging electricity?

• The big story behind all the Russian monies going to the Clinton Foundation is where do we get the uranium that power's up all of our domestic nuclear power plants? 

• Does Russia really got the USA by the "balls" now? The problem with Russia is this nation has always been a black hole to the world…basically transparency has always been controlled by the Russian thug mafia. They only allow you to see what they want you to see. It is not a fully developed institutional democracy government that serves it people. Well then, does the USA fully serve it people? When was the last time you had a raise? 

• Was the Megaton to Megawatt" program really international sized hydrogen bomb corruption... 

• So we are embargoing petroleum out of Russia over Ukraine...we doing the same for Uranium going to the USA?

• What is the price of Russian uranium doing with the high value of the USA dollar?

• Was Russian fuel to going the USA plants subsidized by the USA government?

• Where did all the utility uranium money go to in the Russia. 

• What is the total US money over uranium that going to Russia. Bet, you will run into a grave National Security issues over this.

• This was always a solely domestic story of what source of energy powers up our electric system and thus our economy, but wrapped on in the enigma of extremely secret national security information. This makes the system extremely sensitive to corruption.


• Where does Japan get their uranium?

• What would have happened to our domestic nuclear industry and the utilities, if we were prohibited from using extremely inexpensive Russian gulag uranium electricity post Soviet breakup? 

• I contend the NYT's knows the outline of this story, but they are too chicken to publish it. Or these giant black hole institutions who totally control the information don't give the NYT's sufficient evidence so the giant newspaper feels safe in publishing it. Then again, the public doesn't care about anything electricity.

• I have always had issues with Russian gulag and slave labor electricity!!! 

• Did the American electric utilities illegally kick back through the Russian...monies to the Clinton Foundation as political payoff? 

Did the benefits of USA's cheap Russian uranium electricity ostensibly go to the utility executive 1%ers…or did it make our lives better and support all of our businesses better since the soviet breakup? 

The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force interviewed me in 2010, I always wondered what they thought of me over my blog.

NYT: Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

excerpts: 

…"The national security issue at stake in the Uranium One deal was not primarily about nuclear weapons proliferation; the United States and Russia had for years cooperated on that front, with Russia sending enriched fuel from decommissioned warheads to be used in American

I believe this is the first time it was admitted  the USA gave the Russians raw US uranium in return for diluted weapon grade uranium. The money stream worries me. What did the Russians do with our uranium? Obviously it is cheaper to refine and centrifuge uranium in Russia and any of the third world than it is in the USA.     

nuclear power plants in return for raw uranium. Instead, it concerned American dependence on foreign uranium sources. While the United States gets one-fifth of its electrical power from nuclear plants, it produces

So the NYT's admits 80% of the electricity going to our nuclear fleet comes from the Russian uranium. You see really how difficult it is to know where yellow cake or uranium comes from? Christ, American uranium could be supplying Iran or north Korea? I think the 80% for the nukes is much higher. The Times got it wrong. You can never can trust these nukies to tell all of the truth. It goes more like this, 80% comes from the Russians, a least 15% comes from other foreign sources and way less than 5% comes from US sources. How much comes from Canada...why doesn't the US have a list where we get our uranium.  

only around 20 percent of the uranium it needs, and most plants have only 18 to 36 months of reserves, according to Marin Katusa, author of “The Colder War: How the Global Energy Trade Slipped From America’s Grasp.”

Does anyone wonder why it is not a requirement that a utility discloses where they get their uranium from? It is probably half the reason we can't be tougher on the Ukraine issue because we are so indebted to the Russians. Make no mistake, if Russia immediately shuts off the valve on Russian uranium, there would be huge repercussions. Basically we off-shored all our expensive uranium refining and centrifuging to countries with little employee safety laws. Again, the 80% numberhas been banging around in the internet for many decades. It is disclosed be the nuclear industry itself. Does 80% seem plausible...why isn't 83.5%. I doubt this number is truthful and up to date.         

“The Russians are easily winning the uranium war, and nobody’s talking about it,” said Mr. Katusa, who explores the implications of the Uranium One deal in his book. “It’s not just a domestic issue but a foreign policy issue, too.” 

…American nuclear officials, too, seemed eager to assuage fears. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission wrote to Mr. Barrasso assuring him that American uranium would be preserved for domestic use, regardless of who owned it.

“In order to export uranium from the United States, Uranium One Inc. or ARMZ would need to apply for and obtain a specific NRC license authorizing the export of uranium for use as reactor fuel,” the letter said. 

…Two months later, the deal giving ARMZ a controlling stake in Uranium One was submitted to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States for review. Because of the secrecy surrounding the process, it is hard to know whether the participants weighed the desire to improve bilateral relations against the potential risks of allowing the Russian government control over the biggest uranium producer in the United States. The deal was ultimately approved in October, following what two people involved in securing the approval said had been a relatively smooth process. 

…Mr. Christensen, 65, noted that despite assurances by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that uranium could not leave the country without Uranium One or ARMZ obtaining an export license — which they do not have — yellowcake from his property was routinely packed into drums and trucked off to a processing plant in Canada. 

…Asked about that, the commission confirmed that Uranium One has, in fact, shipped yellowcake to Canada even though it does not have an export license. Instead, the transport company doing the shipping, RSB Logistic Services, has the license. A commission spokesman said that “to the best of our knowledge” most of the uranium sent to Canada for processing was returned for use in the United States. A Uranium One spokeswoman, Donna Wichers, said 25 percent had gone to Western Europe and Japan. At the moment, with the uranium market in a downturn, nothing is being shipped from the Wyoming mines."

We are all worked up about Hillary as Secretary of State OKing the purchasing of one-fifth of American Uranium mining capabilities by the Russians. Then the Russian's giving the Clinton Foundation some $4 million dollars and another $32 million dollars worth of uranium money getting to the Clinton Foundation.

Now we getting into one of deepest national security and American electric utility secrets we ever have.

You know, from Exelon or Entergy, why can’t you go up to them asking where do they get their uranium from that fuels yours nuclear plants. I want the cheapest source? List your sources and their percentages? Why has this become so secret and politicized? 

Why don’t we get a choice, I want USA uranium or I want Soviet uranium? I want uranium source who treats their employees the best?  Where is out vaulted American choice. 

So I wrote “A Message From the Future” in 2004. Why was I all worked up. The big questions  today is over the Russian Uranium and USA electric utility monies going into the Clinton foundation. Nobody has the balls to get it. Do you really get it? "You sure." The American news media establishment bases all its reporting on having absolute triplicate proof on reporting negatively on our elite establishments. Our deepest national security secret the American electric utilities won't tell the the news establishment is where do we get and at what percentage... do we get the uranium that powers up 20% of our electricity?

Almost none of it came from the USA. Some 90% and as high as 99% of the uranium came from Russia. Nuclear electricity has the highest concentration of  foreign source energy than  any source of energy in the USA. If the Russians stopped providing their Uranium to us, this could created a enormus shortage of uranium for our domestic nuclear plants. 

Who destroyed the USA's domestic production of mined uranium, put great numbers of Americans out of work, extremely cheap Russian Uranium. The Russian's subsidized the great American electric utilities. Our electric utilities are one of our most formidable political forces in the USA. 

In the Sundays morning TV news programs these are the big questions:  

The Russian took over one fifth of the USA uranium mining capabilities.  

Nuclear power makes up 20% of the USA's electricity

I tried to express the system as the "Mindless Gods of Nuclear Nonproliferation". Coming out of the great fall of the "Soviet Empire" came the Mega Tons to Megawatt Program. Most of the soviet uranium, refining and centrifuging came for slave labor and little human health rules and laws. Lots of it came from the soviet gulags. The soviet's said they were decommissioning tens of thousandth obsolete nuclear weapons and very high concentration of U235 was made into 4% of so uranium oxide sold to our American domestic nuclear industry at very cheap prices. So tons of electricity was made from soviet era slave labor and come also from their gulags. There was rumors the Russian were spiking this weapons uranium with new mining, refining and centrifuging...anticipating the end of the megaton to megawatt(MTM) problem. The MTM totally destroyed our domestic uranium mining and totally captured our uranium used in our domestic nuclear plant markets?  

If the news media and our USA government really worked in our interest...they would do a exposé of where we got the uranium that powered up 20% of electricity...all  nuclear plants for the last 25 years?  If I was the coal industry, I'd be bragging at least coal electricity is all  a American product, but they know the guys with the humongous political balls is the electric utilities.  

Mindless Gods Of Nuclear Nonproliferation

“A Message From the Future”  

(I wrote this in 2004. It was then that I realized 90% of electricity from all of our domestic nuclear plants was sourced from Russian uranium.)

I am speaking from the year 2106. Our planet has just begun to recover from the modern dark ages. They say truth is stranger than fiction –who would have thought airplanes could be used as political guided missile messages that destroyed two skyscrapers, witness the Twin Towers in New York City in 2001. These are the astonishing events that led to depopulating of half the planet. Modernity dropped back a century in time on average to 1900 throughout the world by 2020. 

Ironically, this modern Dark Age holocaust saved the planet. We were heading over the unrecoverable cliff if we kept going the way we were. Human life would have ended on this planet earth without this nuclear exchange. What did we say about that life and evolution always protects itself? All of a sudden , the planet wide political pressures of global warming, energy and resource shortages were drastically reduced because of the planet wide human and industrial die-off. 

As we sit in 2106 on a global level -all of our political and educational processes have been drastically changed.We have developed a planet wide ethical and moral code. This came through a catastrophe of enormous proportions and the death and sufferings of billions of people. The way we look at our children today is so different than in the year 2004. 

We know that any child born on this planet has the potential and the requirement –to change the course of history of this planet. We give our poorest and disadvantaged children the finest educational tools that money can buy in the hopes that one child will change the course of our future history. Every child on this planet gets educated like this –and every child is our own child! 

The extremist Islamic Iranian wilayat al-faqih eventually got a series of nuclear bombs in 2006. They detonated two bombs in Israel, one each over downtown Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The Israelis never knew if it came by missile or was sneaked in through the boarders of a destabilized Iraq. Israel within hours immediately retaliated. They devastated Iran through a series of atomic detonation. The Israeli military destroyed the capitals of China, Syria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia (and Holy City of Makkah (Mecca) and Russia. You have no idea what this did to the price of oil –this was devastating to the global economic system. 

The majority of the financing of the Iranian nuclear bombs came from a surprising source. There is evidence today that there was an Al-Qaeda plot involved with the Russians and Iranians. It also seems that a few Russians generals held a grudge with the American involvement in the Afghanistan Vietnam. This led to the downfall of the old Soviet Empire. At the 2004 time frame Russia didn't have a real government –it was ruled by mafia don like figures.

The majority of the financing of the Iranian nuclear program came from the American electric utility rate payers. By 2004, the electricity in one out of ten households (update in 2013: one in five homes) was being supplied from the Russian weapons grade nuclear material through the "Megaton to Megawatt program". We were purchasing HEU grade Uranium from the Russian nuclear bomb building program and fueling up American nuclear power plants in the hopes of reducing the nuclear proliferation problems to the tune of one half a billion dollars a year. There was just too much money to be made at all levels of the production and manufacturing with this Russian nuclear material for anyone to have any moral qualms with this. 

A large proportion of the American monies got diverted into the Russian covert nuclear proliferation program that created the Iranian nuclear weapons. There was a theory that it was Chinese rocket technology that propelled the bomb to Jerusalem. It was common knowledge throughout the American political and intelligence establishment that the American nuclear electric monies were disappearing in the Putin regime. We knew the Russians would sell weapon technology without a hint of morality –likewise most of the countries on this planet would sell weapons without a hint of morality, including and especially the Americans. 

To this day, we wonder why the American CIA and intelligence community didn't inform the American public of this impending catastrophe. It is recognized that the American intelligence community was going under historic reorganizations because of the intelligence failures of 9/11 and the WMD failures in Iraq. It was discovered the American intelligence community had gotten even more blinded than the lead up to 9/11 because of the failure of the American public's responsibility to manage their political system by 2006. This became another item on a long list of American institutional political failures of recent. 

We wonder to this day did the American intelligence community work for the particular political regime or did they work for the people at large? Why wasn't the American intelligence community working for the peoples of the planet. What it discovered, was a common relationship throughout the planet is the elites had transcended into competing for wealth and power among themselves –special access to markets and capital. They had forgotten that they were given this privilege in order to create stability and progress for the whole planet 

It was a huge planet wide educational failure of theirs! 

Thank You, 
mike mulligan 
Hinsdale, NH

(The year 2020 isn't here yet, you still got time to care???)

Heroin Problem

Update Oct 28, 2017

Really, how can we help and developed these guys? Our foreign aid is upwards to $500 million dollars. Will a billion fix them? Two billion dollar? I don't trust them a bit in spending our money. I think the Mexican military actions are only protecting the elites. Probably to protect the vacation and us corporate industrial zone. Screw the rest of the nation. 

Why isn't this a death spiral? You know the La Familia Michoacána cartel is paying off the elites. Their billions are dwarfing our foreign aid. What is our corporation begin fleeing Mexico based on the trump miracle wink).

They are polluting our nation with a assortment of dangerous drugs and crimes. Then there is a humanity thing...how can we support the majority of Mexicans to make there lives better and stop all this illegal immigration. A nation they can be proud of and stay home. Why are our political tolerating this status quo. There is a component of national security. 

We just need tough medicine. 
 

Mexico’s Record Violence Is a Crisis 20 Years in the Making

MEXICO CITY — The forces driving violence in Mexico, which is now on track for its worst year in decades, were first set in motion 20 years ago by two events that were, at the time, celebrated as triumphs.

First, Colombia defeated its major drug cartels in the 1990s, driving the center of the drug trade from the country into Mexico.

Then, in 2000, Mexico transitioned to a multiparty democracy.

This meant that the drug trade moved to Mexico just as its politics and institutions were in flux, leaving them unable to address a problem they have often made worse.

Since then, a series of bad breaks, missteps and self-imposed crises have led to an explosion of violence. Last year there were more than 20,000 killings. This year is on track to be worse, exceeding the 2011 record, which was thought to be the drug war’s apex.

“Drug trafficking is not this violent in other countries,” Guillermo Valdés, a former leader of CISEN, the civil national security intelligence service, said in an interview in Mexico City…

I am surprised we haven't done a broad study on the personality characteristics and history of those who get addicted to heroin???

Oct 26 2017 Trump Update

Blah, blah, blah typical politician!!!

Trump says 90% of our heroin comes from south of our boarder. Our narco counties!!!

***Treatment and incarceration does not work. We got severely go after the producer and distribution countries. Cut off foreign aid and ever blockade the countries. Go to war over it to disrupt cartels and drug king pins. China is the main producers fentanyl. Mexica is a gigantic distributor and  producer. Columbia and Mexico are producer of the hard drugs. I would legalized pot.

If we stopped all hard drug from South America we would crater the economy. There would be riots and rebellion all over the place flooding America with illegal immigrants.

NRC All Hands Meeting: Mass Firings and More To come

All Hands Meeting

This has been another year of significant change for NRC. 16
In a few weeks, the Agency will end the fiscal year with around 3200 17
employees. That's about the level we were at in 2006, when NRC was 18
starting to ramp up for the anticipated wave of new reactor applications. 19
In just two years, our workforce declined by more than 12%, 20
mostly as a result of the Project Aim efforts. That is a lot of change in a short 21
period of time, and I know that major changes can be challenging. 22
Unfortunately, for the first time in many years, NRC is preparing for a potential 23
reduction in force, affecting a number of corporate office positions.

The magnitude of it according to the bureaucrats:

NRC 2.0

Pathetic all about downs sizing, statues (art) and employee issues. Nothing about operating reactors, or their financial issues. I am beginning to wonder if downsizing really is NRC employee intimidation.

Worker:Paper Plant Closed

Update

Reposted from 2/26/05

Saturday, February 26, 2005

Worker: paper plant closed

Nika CarlsonSentinel Staff

WINCHESTER — In a strikingly familiar story, Atlantic Paper and Foil, a Winchester tissue plant, temporarily closed its doors Friday, leaving more than 70 people without a job, a worker said.
Company officials could not be reached for comment, but the worker said officials announced they plan on reopening the plant in two to six months.

The closure was news to Winchester Selectman Gustave A. Ruth, who said the company informed Winchester officials several weeks ago that the company was going through bankruptcy proceedings.
According to the worker, who didn’t want his name used, company officials want to upgrade the more than half-century old equipment and improve production at the mill.

Atlantic Paper and Foil is a family-owned company based out of Hauppauge, N.Y., with other locations in New York and Georgia. The Winchester plant was one of its smaller locations.
The situation at Atlantic Paper and Foil closely mirrors that of the plant’s former owners.
Atlantic Paper bought the plant in 2003, after it had lain dormant for several years.

The mill last closed in July 2001. Then-owners American Tissue Inc., said they were

(Fixed)This lagoon issues was me. NH is very weak regulator wise. I hounded the NHDES and politicians (Gov Shaheen) beginning in around 1999. The NHDES totally ignored my first complaint. I kept documenting huge plumbs of pollution heading towards my town and reported it. Got the Keene Sentinel to write an an article on it. Got them on falsified pollution reports and severe EPA poor oversight of the state regular. Identified shortcoming in the regs with  the EPA in small and medium size polluters like this. It was all political fraud in the Clinton era and it was systemic in the NH for decades. Eventually though my hounding, the NH governor, she tasked our Attorney General to take a deep look into this corrupt company. Because of the investigation, then a bank (BOA) made a fraud complaint. We then were off to the races. Put about ten thousand employees out of work and put severe hardship on towns laying off employees and cops.

(Actually BOA later bought out the bankrupt first bank who made the loans and they made the complaint to AG and feds. I believe the loan bank made complaint, then went bankrupt. The NHDES told me in veiled way in the beginning, these are really bad guys. I said bs, make them stop polluting right now)  

going to fix leaky lagoons where wastewater from the plant was leaking into the Ashuelot River.

The mill was never reopened, and American Tissue Inc. declared bankruptcy that same year.
Like Atlantic Paper, the company was based out of Hauppauge, N.Y., though the two firms are unconnected, said Atlantic’s executive vice president in 2003. However, the company was founded by a former partner in American Tissue.

In 2003, four former American Tissue executives were charged with defrauding banks and investors of nearly $300 million, leading to the company’s collapse. At that time, the company owed at least $100,000 in back taxes to the town of Winchester.

When Atlantic Paper bought the mill, officials promised to repay those back taxes.
Town records show the company currently owes unrelated back taxes. The town says Atlantic Paper owes $419 for a piece of property, though the company denies owning the land, Ruth said.

Town officials lobbied hard to bring Atlantic Paper to town, even winning a $700,000 federal grant to help the company buy the mill.

That grant was funneled to Atlantic Paper as a loan through the Monadnock Economic Development Corp. Winchester is not responsible if the company defaults on the loan, Monadnock Economic Development President John G. Dugan said in 2002.

The worker said company officials informed the plant manager just a few days ago that the plant would close. Plans were finalized Thursday, he said.

The worker said management said nothing about severance packages, but said the company promised to pay out any leftover vacation days. They also had unemployment papers readied for workers to fill out, he said.

Many workers were still shocked and angered by the closure, he said.

“There’s a lot of people there that make pretty good money,” he said. “In a week of overtime, I can make $1,000. How are we going to get by that sort of thing? A lot of people got bills to pay, rent to pay, car payments to pay, and kids to take care of. Unemployment might help you get by, but it’s a far cry from what we make.”

Junk Plant Salem/Hoping Going Down The Tubes

The NRC is back stopping from collapse. They would quickly collapse if the NRC stood back. This second latest nuclear facility in the USA is not sufficiently self directed.  

SALEM GENERATING STATION UNIT 2:  SUPPLEMENTAL INSPECTION REPORT 05000311/2017011 AND ASSESSMENT FOLLOW-UP LETTER