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#GrandGulfNuclearStation, troubled #NuclearPlant, reemerges as hot topic as electric bills soar
Latest outage at #Entergy property comes as regulators press dispute over performance
By SAM KARLIN and MATT SLEDGE | Staff writers Aug 7, 2022
"For years, regulators in #Louisiana, #Mississippi and #Arkansas have fought to force #EntergyCorp to pay refunds for alleged #mismanagement and problematic #bookkeeping at its massive #GrandGulfNuclearPowerStation, in #PortGibsonMississippi.
"Grand Gulf has now been offline for more than three weeks. It’s the latest in a series of outages at the plant, where unreliability has been a central gripe of regulators. The shutdown is forcing the utility to buy expensive natural gas to make up for the lost power generation, squeezing customers who are already facing skyrocketing bills - and adding another layer to the long-running dispute over Entergy’s alleged mismanagement of the power plant.
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"The latest litigation, which began last year, centers around outages at the plant; the Grand Gulf was the least reliable nuclear plant in the U.S. from 2018 to 2020, according to figures compiled by the Nuclear Energy Institute [#NEI]."
NOLA.comGrand Gulf, troubled nuclear plant, reemerges as hot topic as electric bills soarThe latest outage at Entergy's property comes as power costs soar and regulators reject a settlement to end a dispute over the plant's performance.
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From #NEI, the PRO #Nuclear lobby! TEPCO has a long history of "Dishonest Acts"?!! And why are we trusting them to test #FukushimaDaiichi #wastewater?!!
Tepco admits leaktightness test falsification
Staff Writer November 3, 2002
"Tokyo Electric Power (#Tepco) staff manipulated main steam valves to reduce leak rates during containment testing in 1991 and 1992, the company has admitted.
"Tepco admitted the '#DishonestActs' in a press release on 25 October. The company said that during the two annual inspections at #Fukushima Daiichi 1 (Fukushima I-1), plant staff knew that the containment leak rate was too high. When government inspectors carried out the leak tightness test the staff injected air via the main steam isolation valves to reduce the leak rate. It is reporteed elsewhere that the real rate was 2% per day compared to the allowed maximum of 0.45% per day. By manipulating the valve, the rate was reduced to 0.12% per day.
"Tepco said the plant had been shut down for additional leak rate inspections, and an external commission comprising five specialist lawyers had been assigned to oversee the investigation. The company could not say whether 'dishonest acts were conducted in the leakage inspections at all Tepco’s nuclear power stations other than the above-mentioned two inspections'; nor could it say whether other tests at that plant had been #falsified. All the company’s leak tests are now being examined.
"Once again, the power company found itself saying: 'Tepco sincerely regrets and apologises that such dishonest acts were conducted.' Tsunehisa Katsumata has taken over as head of Tepco following the resignation of Nobuya Minami. At a press conference Katsumata said the data falsification was 'the gravest crisis since the company was established', and that the company had lost so much 'it should start again from zero'. Shigemi Tamura is to be promoted to chairman, replacing Hiroshi Araki.
"Meanwhile, additional cases of covered up crack findings were also reported by Tepco. According to data Tepco provided to #METI, these cases involve flaws found in recirculation pumps and piping connecting the pumps to the primary circuit at Fukushima I-1 to I-5, at Fukushima II-3, and at #KashiwazakiKariwa 1 and 2. Unlike previously disclosed cases of concealed inspection results, the inspections at these reactors were carried out by Hitachi and Toshiba, rather than by GE.
"In one case, Hitachi has acknowledged that, while under contract for BWR inspection work for Tepco in 1992, it found cracks in neutron-measuring equipment at a BWR at Fukushima. Tepco officials then asked Hitachi personnel to delete the crack finds from reports that they wrote.
"According to a Hitachi spokesman, a senior official in Hitachi’s nuclear plant design division agreed to Tepco’s request because Tepco was a Hitachi client.
"As a consequence of these revelations, plans to build six new reactors totalling 9000MWe at three sites have been indefinitely frozen. This will halt over half the new nuclear capacity that Japan had intended to have in place soon after 2010, including Japan’s first two APWRs."
Read more:
https://www.neimagazine.com/news/tepco-admits-leaktightness-test-falsification/
#WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife #IAEAHides #TEPCOLies
#FukushimaIsntOver #NoDumping
#NuclearPowerPlant
#RadioactiveWater
#RethinkNotRestart #PacificOcean
What?!! #NEI is actually publishing something NEGATIVE about #NuclearEnergy? That doesn't happen very often!
US #NRC proposes fining #Urenco USA
Staff writer, April 7, 2023
"The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has proposed a $70,000 civil penalty for Urenco USA for two violations of agency requirements related to improperly implementing safety controls at its #EuniceNewMexico, #UraniumEnrichment plant.
"The first violation occurred during a March 2022 event when plant staff found three construction vehicles parked near a building that handles #UraniumHexafluoride [#UF6] without physical barriers in place. The company notified NRC as required and the agency launched a special inspection in response and documented its findings.
"Specifically, the company did not take enough precautions to prevent a potential accident sequence involving construction vehicles damaging the facility or the uranium hexafluoride inside – increasing the risk to plant workers and the public. Urenco USA was notified of the apparent violations in December 2022 and in a written response admitted the violations, and discussed plans for corrective actions. NRC said it had reviewed Urenco USA’s response and determined that, while the incidents did not result in the release of radioactive material, the potential safety consequences warrant the proposed fine. The company has 30 days to pay the proposed penalty or contest it. The NRC will consider any response from the company before making a final determination on the matter."
https://www.neimagazine.com/news/us-nrc-proposes-fining-urenco-us-10741390/
Nuclear Engineering International · US NRC proposes fining Urenco USAThe US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has proposed a $70,000 civil penalty for Urenco USA for two violations of agency requirements related to improperly implementing safety controls at its Eunice, New Mexico, enrichment plant. The first violation occurred during a March 2022 event when plant staff found three construction vehicles parked near a building that handles uranium hexafluoride without physical barriers in place. The company notified NRC as required and the agency launched a special inspection in response and documented its findings.
I feel a bit icky. It seems @collectifission had been trolling my timeline before they attacked me. #ProNuclear trolls often use that tactic to intimidate #AntiNuclear activists. I had one who found me on the bird site, then harrassed my personal FB account, mocking the fact that my dog had died (one day I'll tell you all the story of EcoPup / EcoWife trolls, which I traced back to someone who worked for #NEI -- a pro-nuclear industry group. I learned a few things from my hacker buddies). But yeah, blocked the whole domain - @greennuclear.online . Not going to bother my admin about this, since they are busy with keeping Kolektiva running. But if they start popping up under other domains, doing the same shit, I will let the admins know.
cc: @RadicalAnthro
Okai, #dugnadsfolk. Om de no går til https://www.politiet.no/politiloggen, rullar heeeeeeilt nedst, og klikker #nei. Fyller inn liknande #saknamelding...ja, då trur eg jaggu me er der! #RSS
?) Have a nice sized scan of Phantasy Star II's Japanese box art. My own scan of my own box.
BTW this is significantly downsized from full scanning resolution. The most mastodon will let me post. I want to make a poster out of the front cover some day. #phantasystar2 #phantasystar #NEI
【妮伊生日】
姍姍來遲的賀圖。
獻給有玩過夢幻之星、或喜歡 MD 的人……
沒有想到不到一個小時可以畫出來不錯的東西！
大家晚安。
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#NeiAnniversary2023 #Nei #NeiFirst #PhantasyStarII #PixelArt #Pixaki
#ネイ生誕祭2023 #ネイ #ネイファースト #ファンタシースターII #ドット絵
#妮伊生誕祭2023 #妮伊 #妮伊首 #夢幻之星II #像素圖
#megadrive #2023年9月像素圖
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Here I’m reminded of Masatoshi #Nei in Mutation-Driven Evolution: “compare the imaginary world in which no mutation occurs and the world in which no selection occurs. In the mutation-less world, evolution cannot occur because no new variation is generated.”
#introduction 
I’m a neuroscientist & artist. I got into the brain biz from making art—it’s like running #vision experiments on yourself. #Color is an obsession, it connects the physical world with #perception, #cognition, society, so I think it’s a great tool to understand us. I taught #neuroscience at #wellesley, ran a lab at #MIT & now at #NIH #NEI #NIMH. #Science happens in teams & diversity improves teams, so I really value #diversity in science, at all levels, of all kinds. #watercolor
