Yesterday the Shearon Harris #nuclear plant in #NorthCarolina automatically scammed from full power after an electrical fault in an auxiliary transformer occurred. And on Wednesday the North Anna-2 reactor in #Virginia also scrammed after the neutron flux started to drop.

This is so lame. Another 'working group' isn't going to solve #nuclear power's systemic problems. The industry must be disappointed. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

Finally a positive development in US-China relations!

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On Thursday the Quad Cities-2 #nuclear reactor in #Illinois automatically scrammed when at reduced power for maintenance after a main turbine stop valve closed. The reactor is back at full power today.

An NRC security inspection found a failure of the corporate fitness-for-duty program at Entergy #nuclear plants (River Bend and Waterford in #Louisiana , Grand Gulf in #Mississippi ). Personnel who were flagged for follow-up drug/alcohol testing were not actually tested.

Yesterday the Perry #nuclear plant was forced to shut down after the reactor coolant system sprung a 6-gallon-per-minute leak that could not be identified. The reactor remains at zero power today.

Energoatom reports the 750-kV power line has been restored at #Zaporizhzhia . Quick work!

Breaking news: NRC just announced at today's advanced #nuclear reactor stakeholder meeting that, after receiving two supplements to the original submittal, the agency has accepted the TerraPower application to build a Natrium fast reactor in Kemmerer, #Wyoming for review.

The situation at the #Zaporizhzhia #nuclear plant remains precarious.

The craziness just keeps growing ... now the company formerly known as 'Deep Isolation,' which proposed disposing of #nuclear waste in boreholes, has morphed into 'Deep Fission,' which hopes to put entire light-water micro-reactors in boreholes. nrc.gov/docs/ML2413/ML…

An NRC inspection found 2 quality assurance violations in NuScale Power's design activities, including failing to use safety-related procedures for calculations on a safety-related system. NuScale is contesting the violations.
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An NRC investigation at the Hatch #nuclear plant in #Georgia has found that a radiation protection technician falsified radiation and contamination surveys by copying data from previous surveys instead of taking new readings, endangering co-workers. nrc.gov/docs/ML2408/ML…

On Sunday the Beaver Valley-1 #nuclear reactor in #Pennsylvania was manually scrammed at 14 percent power after operators lost control of the water level in one of the steam generators. The reactor is still down this morning.

A troubling development at #Zaporizhzhia . Obviously it would be madness for Russia to attempt to restart the #nuclear plant for power operation.

The latest IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency ⚛️ update from #Ukraine : 'At the Rivne NPP, the IAEA team reported that attacks last week on the electrical power infrastructure elsewhere in Ukraine had resulted in instability in the back-up power lines connected to the plant.'
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Trouble at the D.C. Cook-2 ice-condenser #nuclear reactor in #Michigan : Operators had to manually scram the unit yesterday at 20 percent power after 'stable steam generator levels were unable to be maintained' as it was being down-powered to repair a turbine leak.

Members of the NRC Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards are now pointing out that the absence of a physical containment in the TerraPower Natrium fast #nuclear reactor design is a 'significant departure' from previous expert judgment.

Quote of the day: Responding to a timeline proposed by industry for a 6-month period from selecting a location for a micro #nuclear reactor to power operation, an NRC staffer pointed out that 'the permitting process to build a house in Montgomery County is longer than this.'