Translated by Ollie Richardson for Fort Russ
11th April, 2016
Nuclear Facility dangers abound during severe Earth Changes
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Nuclear plant in Taiwan catches fire
A loud noise was heard at midnight around the plant as the turbine released steam into the sky during the process, Taipower said. (Representative Photo)
BEIJING: Taiwan has shut down two reactors after a fire broke out at a nuclear power station in southern Taiwan shortly before midnight on Sunday.
The incident has caused no radioactive leak and no personnel have needed to be evacuated, Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) said in a statement on its website.
The fire began inside an auxiliary electrical transformer at the Third Nuclear Power Plant in Pingtung County, setting off an alarm at 11:58pm, Taipower said. It was put out by the plant's own firefighters within 17 minutes of its occurance, it said.
A loud noise was heard at midnight around the plant as the turbine released steam into the sky during the process, Taipower said.
Taipower said preliminary investigations suggest that it will take two weeks to get the second reactor operational again. The transformer, which was one of a number of devices supplying electricity to the plant, has been damaged due to short circuit.
The accident is expected to affect China's ambitious plans that include launching eight new nuclear power plants this year besides granting approvals for another set of six new plants. The government aims to build capabilities for producing 30,000 megawatts by 2020.
Chinese nuclear experts have argued that the country has the best safety standards in place after the government recently lifted the ban on new plants, which was imposed after Japan's Fukushima accident in 2011.
Giving details of the accident, Taipower said that another reactor in the affected plant, the No. 1 reactor is unaffected.
The second reactor, which has a electricity generating capacity of 951 megawatts, has been in operation since May 1985.
Taiwan has three nuclear power plants in operation and another one under construction. There has been much public debate about whether the island should become a nuclear power-free society, particularly in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis.
The incident has caused no radioactive leak and no personnel have needed to be evacuated, Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) said in a statement on its website.
The fire began inside an auxiliary electrical transformer at the Third Nuclear Power Plant in Pingtung County, setting off an alarm at 11:58pm, Taipower said. It was put out by the plant's own firefighters within 17 minutes of its occurance, it said.
A loud noise was heard at midnight around the plant as the turbine released steam into the sky during the process, Taipower said.
Taipower said preliminary investigations suggest that it will take two weeks to get the second reactor operational again. The transformer, which was one of a number of devices supplying electricity to the plant, has been damaged due to short circuit.
The accident is expected to affect China's ambitious plans that include launching eight new nuclear power plants this year besides granting approvals for another set of six new plants. The government aims to build capabilities for producing 30,000 megawatts by 2020.
Chinese nuclear experts have argued that the country has the best safety standards in place after the government recently lifted the ban on new plants, which was imposed after Japan's Fukushima accident in 2011.
Giving details of the accident, Taipower said that another reactor in the affected plant, the No. 1 reactor is unaffected.
The second reactor, which has a electricity generating capacity of 951 megawatts, has been in operation since May 1985.
Taiwan has three nuclear power plants in operation and another one under construction. There has been much public debate about whether the island should become a nuclear power-free society, particularly in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis.
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Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on April 12, 2016 at 5:32am
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http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/04/zaporizhia-nuclear-power-plant.html
Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant Experiences Release of Radioactivity
A radioactive release and emergency shutdown of unit 6 occurred at the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant. Management of the State Emergency Service requested people not to panic, but to calmly take preventive measures:"For preventive measures State Emergency Service experts recommend to refrain from a prolonged stay in an open area within three days, to use a medical mask, use a weak solution of iodine in cold water and red wine".Vladimir Rogov, the leader of the Zaporizhia "Slavic Guard" writes:These Nazi brutes are doing everything to turn all post-Ukraine space into an exclusion zone!Meanwhile, $700 million was allocated from the budget of Ukraine for the repair and modernization of power units №1 and №2 of Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant - the junta stole more than $420 million. Moreover, in the corruption scheme, in addition to the so-called "Minister" of Energy and Coal Industry, Vladimir Demchishin, and the "President" of "Energoatom" that participate directly, there are also "President" Poroshenko and the leaders of the American company Westinghouse who are implementing the corruption schemes through its Swedish subsidiary Westinghouse Electric Sweden AB.Quote: "...the excess background radiation at the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant and the sanitary protective zone in a radius of 2.5 km is about 10 times and is not critical to the health of the population. Repair work will be tentatively held until 13th April."
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Nuclear Event – Potential Uncontrolled Radiation Release: Millstone Nuclear Power Plant, Connecticut
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http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/04/11/cook-nucl...
SW Michigan nuclear plant cleaning up after oil spill
(Photo: Courtesy of American Electric Power)
An investigation and cleanup continued Monday at a southwest Michigan nuclear plant after a transformer failure spilled about 25,000 gallons of oil on Friday.
The incident occurred on the power distribution side of the D.C. Cook nuclear plant on the shore of Lake Michigan in Bridgman, and no radioactivity threat was ever present, plant spokesman Bill Schalk said. The plant is owned by Indiana Michigan Power, a wholly owned subsidiary of American Electric Power, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.
About 25,000 gallons of the 30,000 gallons of oil held by the transformer were released, Schalk said. Most of the oil was contained by a protective berm around the transformer, but about 2,000 gallons of the oil spilled on ground outside of the berm, he said.
The oil did not reach nearby drains or Lake Michigan, Schalk said. "We're going to have to remove some soil, but we expect to recapture all of that oil," he said.
The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and Berrien County Emergency Management were notified of the spill, Schalk said. Plant personnel and local fire responders monitored the transformer overnight Friday as cleanup began. Several small fires flared up, but were quickly extinguished as the transformer drained and cooled, Schalk said.
DEQ officials did not immediately provide comment on Monday.
The transformer is relatively new, installed only "a few years ago," and the cause of its failure remains under investigation, Schalk said.
Though another transformer unit at Cook is down for refueling, the company's remaining operational transformer unit means the plant's power generation is continuing unimpeded, he said.
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Finnish Nuclear Power Plant Reactor Shut Down After Radioactive Leak
Finnish Nuclear Power Plant Reactor Shut Down After Radioactive Leak © AP Photo/ Lehtikuva, Antti Aimo-Koivisto
19:31 08.04.2016(updated 19:37 08.04.2016) Get short URL
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160408/1037719383/finland-nuclear-p...According to nuclear power company Teollisuuden Voima, one of the reactors at the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant in western Finland was shut down on Friday due to a minor leakage.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – One of the reactors at the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant in western Finland was shut down on Friday due to a minor leakage of radioactive liquid, nuclear power company Teollisuuden Voima said in a press release.
“Defective fuel rods have been found at OL1 nuclear power plant unit. Electricity production at the plant unit will be stopped for the duration of the work on Monday 11 April 2016,” the press release reads.
According to the press release, three fuel assemblies are expected to be removed from the reactor and replaced with new assemblies. The replacement is due to last for one week.
The company claims the incident poses no threat to the environment.
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Nuclear Event – Unusual Event/High High Radiation Condition: Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, Unit 3, Alabama
North America – USA | State of Alabama, Athens, Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant
Location: 34°42’14.0″N 87°07’07.0″W
Present Operational Age: ~43 years
Event: UNUSUAL EVENT – EMERGENCY DECLARED
Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant: Tennessee River near Decatur and Athens, Alabama. – Owned by TVA. In 1974, the time of its initial operation, it was the largest nuclear plant in the world.. Image source: wikimedia.org
Nuclear Event in USA on Wednesday, 06 April, 2016 at 15:45 [CDT]
UNUSUAL EVENT DECLARED DUE TO MAIN STEAMLINE HIGH HIGH RADIATION CONDITION
At 1545 CDT on 04/06/16 Browns Ferry Unit 3 declared and exited the declaration of an unusual event due to a main steam line high high radiation condition. Power to Unit 3 was reduced to 91 percent power. The high radiation condition alarm cleared at 1526 CDT. Browns Ferry Unit 3 reported that the high radiation conditions were due to resin intrusion from the condensate demineralizers into the reactor and hydrogen water chemistry was a potential contributor to the event. The cause is still under investigation.
The NRC Resident Inspector has been notified.
State and Local notifications were made.
Notified DHS SWO, FEMA Ops Center, NICC Watch Officer, FEMA NWC and Nuclear SSA (email).
* * * UPDATE FROM BILL BALL TO DANIEL MILLS AT 0034 EDT ON 04/07/2016 * * *
“At 1941 [CDT] BFN [Brown’s Ferry] determined this notification to be potentially newsworthy due to receiving notification that counties [surrounding the plant] were alerted of this event. No plant conditions changed.”
The licensee may issue a press release.
The licensee will notify the NRC Resident Inspector.
Notified R2DO (Nease).
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Nuclear Event – Potential Uncontrolled Radiation Release: Susquehanna Nuclear Power Plant, Pennsylvania
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Gujarat Nuclear Plant Shut Down After Major Leak, All Workers Safe
A power generation unit at Kakrapar Atomic Power Station in Surat was shut down after leakage of heavy water.
The leakage was reportedly due to primary heat transport system of the plant, reports India Today. There is no nuclear radiation, officials said. "No radiation leakage or increase in radioactive level, no offside emergency declared," D Rajendra Kumar, Collector.
"Consequent to a small leak in Primary Heat Transport (PHT) System, the reactor was shut down as intended as per design provisions. All safety systems are working as intended. The radioactivity/radiation levels in the plant premises and outside are normal," a statement issued by the plant administration said.
Emergency services of the nuclear plant and the Vyara district administration have been alerted.
The atomic plant has two 220 MW reactor.
The first reactor of the plant was commissioned on September 1992 and the commercial production began in May 1993. The second unit was commissioned in January 1995 and it began producing electricity in September 1995.
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Comment by Scott on March 10, 2016 at 11:50pm
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Fukushima's ground zero: No place for man or robot (3/10/16)
...Today, the radiation at the Fukushima plant is still so powerful it has proven impossible to get into its bowels to find and remove the extremely dangerous blobs of melted fuel rods.
...The fuel rods melted through their containment vessels in the reactors, and no one knows exactly where they are now. This part of the plant is so dangerous to humans, Tepco has been developing robots, which can swim under water and negotiate obstacles in damaged tunnels and piping to search for the melted fuel rods.
But as soon as they get close to the reactors, the radiation destroys their wiring and renders them useless, causing long delays, Masuda said.
...IRRADIATED WATER
...Much of the work involves pumping a steady torrent of water into the wrecked and highly radiated reactors to cool them down. Afterward, the radiated water is then pumped out of the plant and stored in tanks that are proliferating around the site.
What to do with the nearly million tonnes of radioactive water is one of the biggest challenges, said Akira Ono, the site manager. Ono said he is “deeply worried” the storage tanks will leak radioactive water in the sea - as they have done several times before - prompting strong criticism for the government.
...ICE WALL
...Tepco is building the world’s biggest ice wall to keep groundwater from flowing into the basements of the damaged reactors and getting contaminated.
First suggested in 2013 and strongly backed by the government, the wall was completed in February, after months of delays and questions surrounding its effectiveness. Later this year, Tepco plans to pump water into the wall - which looks a bit like the piping behind a refrigerator - to start the freezing process.
...“The reactors continue to bleed radiation into the ground water and thence into the Pacific Ocean,” Gunderson said. "When Tepco finally stops the groundwater, that will be the end of the beginning.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-disaster-decommissioning-id...
A member of the media, wearing a protective suit and a mask, looks at the No. 3 reactor building at Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
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Fire in Watts Bar pump motor today brings emergency declaration
March 9th, 2016
The TVA Watts Bar Nuclear Plant is photographed on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015, near Spring City, Tenn., as Unit 2 begins producing electricity for the first time, 43 years after construction began at the site.
A small fire ignited early Wednesday in one of the pump motors for TVA's newest reactors, forcing the federal utility to declare the lowest of emergency classifications at the plant even before it has produced any power.
TVA crews were testing equipment in its Watts Bar Unit 2 reactor Wednesday when the fire was noticed at 3:42 a.m. in one of the three hotwell pump motors used in the turbine building on the non-nuclear side of the new unit. The fire was extinguished within 19 minutes, but TVA was still required to declare a "Notice of an Unusual Event" — the lowest of the four NRC emergency classifications.
The notice was exited by 5:08 a.m. after operators confirmed that all plant systems were operating as designed.
"Plant personnel extinguished the motor fire, and there was no danger to the public," TVA spokesman Jim Hopson said. "Other Watts Bar Unit 2 systems were unaffected. Watts Bar Unit 1 was also unaffected and remained safely online throughout the event."
Joey Ledford, a spokesman for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said utilities are required to make such notifications when there is a fire in any part of a nuclear plant. NRC inspectors are still evaluating the incident, but Hopson said he did not expect the fire to set back plans to begin generating limited power at the Watts Bar Unit 2 within the next month.
"We have to complete our evaluation of what happened, but on the surface this does not appear to be something that should significantly affect the startup of this unit," Hopson said.
TVA plans to have the new reactor in full production as a commercial nuclear unit by June.
Hopson said the fire was isolated to the pump motor area and did not affect other plant equipment or have any impact on Watts Bar's other operating nuclear reactor.
Hotwell pumps are part of the unit's condenser system and help recirculate water condensed from steam after it passes through the turbines used to generate electricity. They are located on the power generation side of the plant and are not directly associated with the reactor or with the reactor cooling system.
The Watts Bar Unit 2 reactor will be the first new nuclear reactor added to America's nuclear grid since the other Watts Bar unit started up in 1996. TVA has spent more than $5 billion to build the unit through a series of starts and stops in construction since the project began in 1973.
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Turkey Point Nuclear Plant Is Pumping Polluted Water Into Biscayne Bay
Tuesday, March 8, 2016 | 3 hours ago
Turkey Point's cooling canals are leaking radiation into Biscayne Bay, a new study confirms.As Florida Power & Light finalized plans to expand its nuclear reactors at Turkey Point three years ago, critics were aghast. The nuclear plant already stands on environmentally fragile land, and upping the power production would seriously threaten the ecosystem, they argued.
Turns out they were right. This morning, the county released the results of a study into whether Turkey Point has been leaking dangerous wastewater into Biscayne Bay. County water monitors found more than 200 times the normal levels of tritium, a radioactive isotope linked to nuclear power production, in the bay water.
"This is one of several things we were very worried about," says South Miami Mayor Philip Stoddard, who is also a biological sciences professor at Florida International University. "You would have to work hard to find a worse place to put a nuclear plant, right between two national parks and subject to hurricanes and storm surge."
The study is just the latest blow to FPL, which lost a state court ruling last month when a judge found the utility had failed to prevent hundreds of thousands of gallons of wastewater from seeping into the bay.
County commissioners are scrambling this morning to get answers as to how the plant could be leaking so much radiation into the protected Biscayne Bay.
"I was shocked to read this," says Commissioner Xavier Suarez, who in a letter demanded answers from FPL "by the end of the day." County Mayor Carlos Gimenez, meanwhile, says the county has "aggressively enforced its regulations" and would demand that the state force FPL to fix the problem.
At the heart of the troubling issue revealed in the new report is a system of canals surrounding the nuclear plant in southeast Miami-Dade. Nuclear cores must be constantly cooled to avoid meltdowns. The canals circulate water through the plant to leech heat off the reactors.
As FPL prepared to expand the plant's reactors in 2013, critics such as Stoddard warned that relying on the canals was a mistake. For one thing, environmentalists argued, the hot, salty canal water would inevitably leak back into Biscayne Bay and the Everglades.
"They argued the canals were a closed system, but that's not how water works in South Florida," Stoddard says.
In the two years since, environmentalists have pointed to a growing litany of concerns, including spiking heat levels in the canals and saltwater plumes exploding from the power plant into nearby groundwater systems. Stoddard says salty water has intruded as far as four miles inland through groundwater.
But FPL resisted new monitoring, Stoddard says, and deflected blame. "FPL has argued and argued and denied and denied there was any connection to their canals," he says. "They've tried to prevent monitoring. They were successful until the county commission finally demanded this study."
FPL hasn't returned New Times' phone calls for comment on the study. The county's numbers are cited in another report released today, which was conducted by University of Miami scientist Dr. David Chin, who analyzed how an influx of new water could affect the cooling canals.
As for those elevated tritium levels, it's not clear whether the isotope itself is dangerous to people or wildlife at that concentration; that's one topic on which the commission will demand answers from FPL, Suarez says.
But the hot, salty water is certainly a problem for the delicate ecosystems in Biscayne National Park and the Everglades. Stoddard — who argues the new study might point to violations of the federal Clean Water Act — says he believes only two solutions are viable: building new cooling towers to replace the canals, or shutting down the plant.
"There's a certain validation to critics in seeing this result in the study," he says. "But more important, it's now crossed the threshold of federal law here."
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