Source: Forbes
Date: 10.03.11, 05:44 PM EDT
by: MICHAEL FELBERBAUM
MINERAL, Va. --
Two nuclear reactors at Dominion Virginia Power's North
Anna Power Station did not sustain any significant damage from the Aug.
23 earthquake and the company responded appropriately when the reactors
were automatically shut down, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said
Monday.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Thursday, September 1, 2011
9/1/2011 Earthquake shifted nuclear storage casks up to 4 inches
Source: USA Today
Date: 9/1/2011
by: Wendy Koch
The magnitude-5.8 earthquake last week in Virginia caused 25 of 27 spent-fuel storage casks at a nearby nuclear power plant to shift 1 to 4 inches, officials said Thursday.
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Date: 9/1/2011
by: Wendy Koch
The magnitude-5.8 earthquake last week in Virginia caused 25 of 27 spent-fuel storage casks at a nearby nuclear power plant to shift 1 to 4 inches, officials said Thursday.
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
8/31/2011 FACTBOX-US nuclear facilities back in restart after Irene
Source: Reuters
Date: Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:27pm GMT
Aug 31 (Reuters) - The following lists nuclear power plants in the path of Hurricane Irene and
their status as of early Wednesday.
Some plants remained fully operational through the storm, while a few were shut or reduced power in advance of expected major storm surge.
In Maryland, Constellation Energy Nuclear Group's Calvert Cliffs 1 facility remained shut offline after a transformer was hit by a section of aluminum siding during the storm.
The North Anna nuclear plant in Virginia remains shut following last week's earthquake in the region. The plant cannot be restarted until the operator can show no functional damage occurred to equipment needed for safe operation. [ID:nN1E77S184]
© Thomson Reuters 2011 All rights reserved
Date: Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:27pm GMT
Aug 31 (Reuters) - The following lists nuclear power plants in the path of Hurricane Irene and
their status as of early Wednesday.
Some plants remained fully operational through the storm, while a few were shut or reduced power in advance of expected major storm surge.
In Maryland, Constellation Energy Nuclear Group's Calvert Cliffs 1 facility remained shut offline after a transformer was hit by a section of aluminum siding during the storm.
The North Anna nuclear plant in Virginia remains shut following last week's earthquake in the region. The plant cannot be restarted until the operator can show no functional damage occurred to equipment needed for safe operation. [ID:nN1E77S184]
STATE OWNER PLANT MONDAY STATUS RESTART TIMING CAPACITY MW ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Connecticut Dominion Millstone Unit 2 BACK AT FULL PWR N/A 884 Connecticut Dominion Millstone Unit 3* BACK AT FULL PWR N/A 1,227 Maryland Constellation Calvert Cliffs 1* UP TO 2 PT UNKNOWN 873 Maryland Constellation Calvert Cliffs 2 NO IMPACT N/A 862 Massachusetts Entergy Pilgrim NO IMPACT N/A 685 New Hampshire NextEra Seabrook NO IMPACT N/A 1,295 New Jersey PSEG Nuclear Salem Unit 1 NO IMPACT N/A 1,174 New Jersey PSEG Nuclear Salem Unit 2 NO IMPACT N/A 1,130 New Jersey PSEG Nuclear Hope Creek NO IMPACT N/A 1,161 New Jersey Exelon Oyster Creek* BACK AT FULL PWR N/A 619 New York Entergy Indian Point 2 NO IMPACT N/A 1,020 New York Entergy Indian Point 3 NO IMPACT N/A 1,025 N. Carolina Progress Brunswick Unit 1* BACK AT FULL PWR N/A 938 N. Carolina Progress Brunswick Unit 2* UP TO 94 PCT N/A 937 N. Carolina Progress Harris Unit 1 NO IMPACT N/A 900 Pennsylvania Exelon Limerick 1 BACK AT FULL PWR N/A 1,134 Pennsylvania Exelon Limerick 2 BACK AT FULL PWR N/A 1,134 Virginia Dominion Surry Unit 1 NO IMPACT N/A 799 Virginia Dominion Surry Unit 2 NO IMPACT N/A 799 Virginia Dominion North Anna Unit 1 OFFLINE UNKNOWN 980.5 Virginia Dominion North Anna Unit 2 OFFLINE UNKNOWN 972.9 Vermont Entergy Vermont Yankee NO IMPACT N/A 620 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key:
GE - General Electric
WH - Westinghouse
Numbers in brackets show current power output
Stations to which NRC dispatched additional staff
Sources: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, companies
(Reporting by Eileen Moustakis, Jeanine Prezioso, Selam Gebrekidan, David Sheppard, Joshua
Schneyer and Matthew Robinson in New York, Eileen O'Grady in Houston;editing by Sofina Mirza-Reid)
© Thomson Reuters 2011 All rights reserved
Monday, August 29, 2011
8/24/2011 (Video) Why did the Virginia nuke plant, built on fault line, have its quake sensors removed?
Source: RT News
Date: 8/24/2011
by: Thom Hartman
[Editor's Note: I extracted the Thom Hartman interview segment with Beyond Nuclear's Paul Gunter concerning the North Anna Nuclear Generating Station which is run by Dominion Generation (the company stock is listed as Dominion Resources). Some disturbing points are brought up. This nuclear power plant actually had its seismic sensors removed in the 1990's due to budget cuts. The Lake Anna Dam, which was constructed on the North Anna River to create Lake Anna, an artificial reservoir to cool the North Anna nuclear plant, was recently inspected for earthquake damage and passed inspection. However, as Mr. Gunter notes, America's crumbling infrastructure has low D- ratings on many of its dams with regards to upkeep, including this one. Also, due to the nuclear power plant being very close to the epicenter of the 5.8 magnitude quake, Gunter feels that damage to the nuclear plant's is likely, such as cracked pipes which in the case of the Dresden nuclear power plant in Illinois, leaked radioactive tritium.
Link to original Thom Hartman interview which includes other segments: http://youtu.be/pRs5RKXoZ6I
Good article that speculates that the North Anna Nuclear Generating Station has been damaged and is possibly leaking radiation: http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/us-quake-nuclear-meltdown-wa...]
Date: 8/24/2011
by: Thom Hartman
[Editor's Note: I extracted the Thom Hartman interview segment with Beyond Nuclear's Paul Gunter concerning the North Anna Nuclear Generating Station which is run by Dominion Generation (the company stock is listed as Dominion Resources). Some disturbing points are brought up. This nuclear power plant actually had its seismic sensors removed in the 1990's due to budget cuts. The Lake Anna Dam, which was constructed on the North Anna River to create Lake Anna, an artificial reservoir to cool the North Anna nuclear plant, was recently inspected for earthquake damage and passed inspection. However, as Mr. Gunter notes, America's crumbling infrastructure has low D- ratings on many of its dams with regards to upkeep, including this one. Also, due to the nuclear power plant being very close to the epicenter of the 5.8 magnitude quake, Gunter feels that damage to the nuclear plant's is likely, such as cracked pipes which in the case of the Dresden nuclear power plant in Illinois, leaked radioactive tritium.
Link to original Thom Hartman interview which includes other segments: http://youtu.be/pRs5RKXoZ6I
Good article that speculates that the North Anna Nuclear Generating Station has been damaged and is possibly leaking radiation: http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/us-quake-nuclear-meltdown-wa...]
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
8/23/2011 Quake sensors removed around Virginia nuke plant due to budget cuts
Source: The Raw Story
Date: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 -- 3:52 pm
by:
A nuclear power plant that was shut down after an earthquake struck central Virginia Tuesday had seismographs removed in 1990s due to budget cuts.
U.S. nuclear officials said that the North Anna Power Station, which has two nuclear reactors, had lost offsite power and was using diesel generators to maintain cooling operations after an 5.9 earthquake hit the region.
The North Anna plant, which was near the epicenter of Tuesday's quake, is reportedly located on a fault line.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission rates the plant as the seventh most likely to receive core damage from a quake. But they say the chances of that are only 1 in 22,727.
According to the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME), the Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory (VTSO) removed all seismographs from around the plant in the 1990s due to budget cuts.
In February, Dominion Virginia Power confirmed its commitment to add a third reactor to the plant.
"While Dominion has not decided on the schedule to build the unit, the company will continue to move forward with the federal combined operating license process and preliminary site development work," Dominion CEO Thomas F. Farrell II said in a statement.
Update: Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) Senior Scholar Bob Alvarez told the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) that the North Anna plant was built to withstand a 5.9-6.1 quake.
Date: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 -- 3:52 pm
by:
A nuclear power plant that was shut down after an earthquake struck central Virginia Tuesday had seismographs removed in 1990s due to budget cuts.
U.S. nuclear officials said that the North Anna Power Station, which has two nuclear reactors, had lost offsite power and was using diesel generators to maintain cooling operations after an 5.9 earthquake hit the region.
The North Anna plant, which was near the epicenter of Tuesday's quake, is reportedly located on a fault line.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission rates the plant as the seventh most likely to receive core damage from a quake. But they say the chances of that are only 1 in 22,727.
According to the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME), the Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory (VTSO) removed all seismographs from around the plant in the 1990s due to budget cuts.
In February, Dominion Virginia Power confirmed its commitment to add a third reactor to the plant.
"While Dominion has not decided on the schedule to build the unit, the company will continue to move forward with the federal combined operating license process and preliminary site development work," Dominion CEO Thomas F. Farrell II said in a statement.
Update: Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) Senior Scholar Bob Alvarez told the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) that the North Anna plant was built to withstand a 5.9-6.1 quake.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
8/23/2011 M5.9 earthquake causes North Anna Nuclear Generating Station shutdown
CNBC (host Bill Griffith) reports that the North Anna Nuclear Generating Station has shutdown automatically due to the magnitude 5.9 earthquake with its epicenter at Mineral, Virginia. The nuclear power plant is located about 10 miles Northeast of the epicenter of the quake and is running on backup diesel generators (presumably after losing external power!) per CNBC host Mandy Drury. Dominion Resources stock took a hit after the quake, which CNBC host Brian Sullivan mulls over. Was it a pre-packaged black box algorithm? I have parsed together some video clips of the CNBC coverage with the relevant sound bytes related to the nuclear plant.
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