HAVING CHECKED THIS IN SEVERAL WAYS, I CANNOT 100% VALIDATE THE "INCIDENT".
NO REPORT FOUND AT THE READING ROOM OF THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC), BUT I TRUST THEM A LITTLE LESS THAN I DO POLITICIANS AND HAVE SEEN EVENTS TURN UP ANYWHERE FROM DAYS TO MONTHS THERE AT THE READING ROOM... AFTER THE ACTUAL EVENT WAS COVERED BY MAINSTREAM NEWS.
LENDING SOME CREDIBILITY TO THE REPORT, THIS:
"Just 39 out of 124 [EPA/RADNET] beta monitors were functioning as of November 23. That number has plunged to 31 as of December 2.
[31 BETA MONITORS, ALPHA, GAMMA, WHICH TYPES?
ONLY GAMMA MONITORS, AND ONLY 31 OF THOSE ARE WORKING, 31 FOR ALL OF AMERICA...NOT EVEN ONE PER STATE!]]
That means just 25 percent of America’s front line detection defense against man-made radiation actually functions.
Taxpayer dollars are being wasted on a system that defies other government contracted networks for most bungled results.
While the EPA has repeatedly shown that it has discounted the effects of airborne radiation, such as EnviroReporter.com reported in EPA Nukes Radiation Rules in July 2013, it does not diminish the toxicity of the radiation involved."
SO, NO, THE EPA ISN'T TROUBLING ITSELF TO REPAIR ANY MONITORS, REPLACE ANY, AND SURELY IS NOT GOING TO ADD ANY.
EPA SHOULD DROP THAT "P" FOR 'PROTECTION', BECAUSE IT DOESN'T PROTECT MUCH BESIDES THE BIG CORPORATIONS WHO POLLUTE THE MOST... OR MAYBE CHANGE ITS NAME TO "WE REALLY SUCK"?
THE OLD PALISADES UNIT 1 NUCLEAR REACTOR IN MICHIGAN POSTED AN INCIDENT ON THE 24th OF MARCH.
"CONTROL ROOM VENTILATION DECLARED INOPERABLE
~Event Number: 51820
03/24/2016
At approximately 0211 [EDT], on March 24, 2016, both control room ventilation filtration trains were declared inoperable in accordance with Technical Specification 3.7.10, Condition B, due to a control room boundary door not being fully closed. Following routine security rounds, the door was unable to be fully closed due to the door's locking bolts not retracting back into the door body, causing interference between the door and door frame.
"Mitigating actions have been implemented that ensure control room envelope (CRE) occupant radiological exposures will not exceed limits, and CRE occupants are protected from chemical and smoke hazards. Repairs to the door are currently in progress."
AS FOR ILLINOIS, I AM POSTING THIS "JUST IN CASE", AS A RECORD THAT THIS WAS REPORTED BY THE WEBSITES <HERE> AND <HERE> .
NO REPORT FOUND AT THE READING ROOM OF THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC), BUT I TRUST THEM A LITTLE LESS THAN I DO POLITICIANS AND HAVE SEEN EVENTS TURN UP ANYWHERE FROM DAYS TO MONTHS THERE AT THE READING ROOM... AFTER THE ACTUAL EVENT WAS COVERED BY MAINSTREAM NEWS.
LENDING SOME CREDIBILITY TO THE REPORT, THIS:
"Just 39 out of 124 [EPA/RADNET] beta monitors were functioning as of November 23. That number has plunged to 31 as of December 2.
[31 BETA MONITORS, ALPHA, GAMMA, WHICH TYPES?
ONLY GAMMA MONITORS, AND ONLY 31 OF THOSE ARE WORKING, 31 FOR ALL OF AMERICA...NOT EVEN ONE PER STATE!]]
That means just 25 percent of America’s front line detection defense against man-made radiation actually functions.
Taxpayer dollars are being wasted on a system that defies other government contracted networks for most bungled results.
While the EPA has repeatedly shown that it has discounted the effects of airborne radiation, such as EnviroReporter.com reported in EPA Nukes Radiation Rules in July 2013, it does not diminish the toxicity of the radiation involved."
SO, NO, THE EPA ISN'T TROUBLING ITSELF TO REPAIR ANY MONITORS, REPLACE ANY, AND SURELY IS NOT GOING TO ADD ANY.
EPA SHOULD DROP THAT "P" FOR 'PROTECTION', BECAUSE IT DOESN'T PROTECT MUCH BESIDES THE BIG CORPORATIONS WHO POLLUTE THE MOST... OR MAYBE CHANGE ITS NAME TO "WE REALLY SUCK"?
THE OLD PALISADES UNIT 1 NUCLEAR REACTOR IN MICHIGAN POSTED AN INCIDENT ON THE 24th OF MARCH.
"CONTROL ROOM VENTILATION DECLARED INOPERABLE
~Event Number: 51820
03/24/2016
At approximately 0211 [EDT], on March 24, 2016, both control room ventilation filtration trains were declared inoperable in accordance with Technical Specification 3.7.10, Condition B, due to a control room boundary door not being fully closed. Following routine security rounds, the door was unable to be fully closed due to the door's locking bolts not retracting back into the door body, causing interference between the door and door frame.
"Mitigating actions have been implemented that ensure control room envelope (CRE) occupant radiological exposures will not exceed limits, and CRE occupants are protected from chemical and smoke hazards. Repairs to the door are currently in progress."
AS FOR ILLINOIS, I AM POSTING THIS "JUST IN CASE", AS A RECORD THAT THIS WAS REPORTED BY THE WEBSITES <HERE> AND <HERE> .
RED ARROW SHOWS WIND DIRECTION FROM THE BYRON NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION TOWARD ST. CHARLES ON THE 21st.
11:20 AM
THAT'S QUITE A CLIMB IN JUST 20 MINUTES!
THAT'S QUITE A CLIMB IN JUST 20 MINUTES!
11:00AM
"Radiation levels in St. Charles, IL are more than ten times higher than "typical" today and are still rising suddenly according to Geiger counters from the Nuclear Emergency Tracking Center. Levels of Gamma radiation are presently at 459 Counts-Per-Minute (CPM) which is more than ten times higher than the "typical" of 42 CPM.
Just yesterday, levels skyrocketed to 1092 CPM, which is twenty-six times higher than "typical" and quite dangerous to be exposed to all day.
This is the THIRD time in seven days that radiation levels in this suburb of Chicago have suddenly spiked, far above the "typical" level into what many nuclear professionals call "dangerous" exposure.
As of 12:30 PM EDT, Geiger counters are showing a dramatic drop in radiation levels, down to a "safe" level of 239 CPM and continuing to drop.
WHO CAN SAY IF THE EPA's RADNET MONITORS ARE CORRECT?
I DOUBT THEY'VE CHECKED THEM YET THIS YEAR.
I CERTAINLY WOULD LIKE TO SEE MAYBE SOME RUSSIAN MONITORS SET IN THERE BESIDE THE EPA's CRAP, WOULDN'T YOU?
FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL:
I HOPE YOU WILL THINK ABOUT THE FOLLOWING FOR A BIT....
IT'S A REPORT ON THE NRC's WEBSITE ABOUT A MISSING TRITIUM EXIT SIGN.
YES, ONE OF THOSE "GLOW-IN-THE-DARK" EXIT SIGNS.
UNDERSTAND THAT THIS HAD TO BE REPORTED TO THE NRC.
IT HAD TO BE REPORTED.
IF NUCLEAR ENERGY, IF RADIATION IS SO SAFE, WHY DO THEY HAVE TO REPORT A SMALL MISSING SIGN WITH THAT "LOW LEVEL", "TEENY AMOUNT" OF TRITIUM IN IT?
~ Event Number: 51781
Notification Date: 03/09/2016
Licensee: NRG ENERGY SERVICES
City: NEW FLORENCE State: PA
The following report was received from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania via email and facsimile:
"Event Type: Loss of licensed material in a quantity greater than or equal to 1000 times the Appendix C quantities in part 20.
"Notifications: NRG Energy discovered the event on March 7, 2016, [at their Seward, PA location,] and submitted a report to the Department [Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection] on March 9, 2016. This event is reportable as per 10 CFR 20.2201(a)(1)(i).
"Event Description:
On Monday March 7, 2016, while conducting the six month inventory check of the radioactive sources at the Seward Power Plant, one tritium exit sign was found missing. The exit sign was installed above a door located in Seward's Fuel Barn.
The last inventory check was conducted September 11, 2015, and the exit sign was present at that time. The exit sign was manufactured by EMERG-LITE and was an Everlite series sign.
[ANYBODY WHO WANTED TO REMOVE ANYTHING FROM THERE WOULD HAVE 6 LONG MONTHS TO MAKE A GETAWAY, RIGHT? NOBODY WOULD MISS ANYTHING FOR 6 MONTHS.]
The sign contained between 9.5 - 11.5 Ci of tritium gas at the time of manufacture and was to be replaced before February 2023. The sign was last known to be in good condition and not damaged. No cause for the missing sign has been identified and no exposures have been recorded at this time.
"Cause of the Event: Unknown at this time. The plant is currently searching the site and conducting interviews with personnel.
"Actions: The Department will be following up with the facility for any additional information. The plant is also conducting refresher radiation training to plant personnel. More information will be provided upon receipt."
Pennsylvania Event Report ID No: PA160009.
THIS MATERIAL EVENT CONTAINS A "LESS THAN CAT 3" LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL.
NOW, READ ABOUT "LESS THAN CATEGORY 3"
"Sources that are "Less than IAEA Category 3 sources," are either sources that are very unlikely to cause permanent injury to individuals or contain a very small amount of radioactive material that would not cause any permanent injury.
Some of these sources, such as moisture density gauges or thickness gauges that are Category 4, the amount of unshielded radioactive material, if not safely managed or securely protected, could possibly - although it is unlikely - temporarily injure someone who handled it or were otherwise in contact with it, or who were close to it for a period of many weeks.
For additional information go to http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1227_web.pdf
NICE WORDING, YES?
KEEPS THEIR BUTTS OUT OF THE PROVERBIAL SLING WHILE NOT SAYING OUTRIGHT THAT "LOW LEVEL" RADIATION IS DANGEROUS.
A SMALL EXIT SIGN...AND THEY'RE SCRAMBLING TO FIND IT, AND MAKING A REPORT TO THE NRC.
LIKE I SAID, THINK ABOUT THAT.
THEN THINK ABOUT THIS ONE, WITH SUPPOSEDLY EVEN LOWER "LOW LEVELS", BUT LOW LEVELS BUILT UP AND UP OVER TIME:
After Glow - 90 Years Ago Workers At The Waterbury Clock Company Began Dying After Painting Radium On Clock Dials.
"Many of the women pressed their brushes between their lips before dipping them in the radium-laced paint to give their small brushes a nice, fine point.
The gritty-textured paint tasted no worse than Elmer’s glue, but it had a strange effect: It made their mouths glow in the dark.
More than 40 dial painters died in Ottawa, Illinois.
“The suffering and deaths of these workers greatly increased the world’s knowledge of the hazards of radioactivity, ultimately saving countless lives of future generations, “ writes Ross Mullner, Author of “Deadly Glow”.
MORE THAN 40 DIED, BUT THE EPA ISN'T CONCERNED ABOUT RADIATION IN/NEAR THOSE BUILDINGS, NO SIREE!
"The radium contamination doesn’t pose an immediate public health threat, like, say, benzene gas billowing into the air, or mercury leaching into the groundwater, so the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rejected these old factories as Superfund sites."
WHAT'S 40+ DEAD PEOPLE TO THE EPA, RIGHT?
~ Event Number: 51806
BYRON, ILLINOIS, NUCLEAR REACTORS 1 & 2
Notification Date: 03/18/2016
FITNESS FOR DUTY - CONFIRMED POSITIVE TEST FOR ALCOHOL
"In accordance with 10 CFR 26.719(b)(2)(ii), this notification reports a non-licensed contracted employee supervisor had a confirmed positive for alcohol during a random fitness for duty test.
The employee's access to the plant has been suspended."
[HOW MANY ARE DISCOVERED "UNFIT FOR DUTY" EACH YEAR?
I SEARCHED DILIGENTLY AND COULD NOT FIND ANYBODY, ANY AGENCY, KEEPING STATS ON THAT.]
~ Event Number: 51809
Notification Date: 03/20/2016
Power Reactor
LIMERICK ( in Pennsylvania)
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION (TS) REQUIRED SHUTDOWN DUE TO PRESSURE BOUNDARY LEAKAGE
"During a planned Unit 1 shutdown for a refueling outage, a 0.5 gpm 'pressure boundary leak' was identified on a 1 inch pipe connected to the '1A' RHR-Shutdown Cooling return line by the drywell leak inspection team during a drywell inspection at approximately 15% power.
The leak exceeded the TS 3.4.3.2 'Operational Leakage' LCO of no pressure boundary leakage. TS action 'a' was entered which requires to be in at least Hot Shutdown within 12 hours and Cold Shutdown within the next 24 hours. Therefore, the event is reportable within 4 hours per 10CFR50.72(b)(2)(i) due to the initiation of a plant shutdown required by the plant's TS.
"The event is also reportable within 8 hours per 10CFR50.72(b)(3)(ii) due to an event that resulted in the condition of the nuclear power plant, including its principal safety barriers, being seriously degraded.
"TS 1.28 defines Pressure Boundary Leakage as leakage through a nonisolable fault in a reactor coolant system component body, pipe wall or vessel wall; therefore, the leak is a 'pressure boundary leak' as defined in TS."
[DID THEY BOTHER TO FIX IT? DOESN'T SAY.
~ PATHETICALLY CRUMBLY ARKANSAS NUKE FACILITY, "ARKANSAS ONE",
UNITS 1 & 2
Event Number: 51808
Notification Date: 03/20/2016
DEGRADED CONDITION
[REALLY? YA' THINK?]
UNANALYZED CONDITION THAT COULD CHALLENGE RHR EQUIPMENT DURING FLOOD CONDITIONS
(2"Two ) potentially degraded flood barriers at penetrations 0073-01-0034 and 0073-01-0063 were identified in the area between the Unit 1 Turbine Building and Auxiliary Building. The deficient barriers are a 'blockout section' of the floor designed to house multiple penetrations that transition from the Turbine Building to the Auxiliary Building. Attempts have been made to investigate the status of the flood barrier with no definitive results. Investigations and additional evaluations are continuing, however, it is currently unknown if the aggregate of these two flood barriers could potentially overwhelm and flood the Auxiliary Building which would challenge equipment necessary to remove residual heat and constitute an unanalyzed condition.
"Based on current conditions (i.e., no forecast flooding conditions), this condition does not present an immediate safety concern.
"This condition has been determined to be reportable per 10 CFR 50.72(b)(3)(ii)(B) and 10 CFR 50.72(b)(3)(v)(B). This condition is a non-emergency condition. This condition has been entered into the Corrective Action Program.
"Compensatory measures have been prepared to allow placement of a seal over the identified deficient barriers. If required these seals can be installed well in advance of forecast flood conditions. Permanent repairs are currently being designed for installation."
~WATTS BAR IN TENNESSEE, AGAIN...AND AGAIN...AND...
REACTOR UNIT 1
Event Number: 51795
Notification Date: 03/17/2016
ACCIDENT MITIGATION
LOSS OF EMERGENCY AND AUXILIARY GAS TREATMENT SYSTEMS
"On March 17, 2016, at 0115 [EDT], Watts Bar Unit 1 (WBN1) entered Technical Specification Limiting Condition of Operation (TS LCO) 3.0.3 due to the inoperability of both trains of the Emergency Gas Treatment System (EGTS). TS LCO 3.7.12
Condition B was also entered at this time due to the inoperability of both trains of the Auxiliary Gas Treatment System (ABGTS).
The train B EGTS and train B ABGTS had been removed from service for scheduled maintenance, when at 0115, the train A Auxiliary Air Compressor became inoperable.
On March 17, 2016, at 0133, the train A Auxiliary Air Compressor was declared OPERABLE, and TS LCO 3.0.3 and 3.7.12 Condition B were exited.
"The auxiliary air system supports the EGTS by providing a safety grade air supply. When train A auxiliary air became inoperable, the supported train A EGTS and ABGTS became inoperable, creating a condition where both trains of EGTS and ABGTS were unavailable.
[READ THE NEXT SENTENCE MORE THAN ONCE, PLEASE.]
Filters in these system mitigate the release of radioactive contaminants to the environment. "
THEY "MITIGATE" THE RELEASE OF RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINANTS INTO THE ENVIRONMENT... THEY JUST LESSEN THE RELEASE, BUT DO NOT, CANNOT STOP THE RELEASE.
ONE MORE EVENT, FOR NOW, TO MAKE THIS LIST SPAN JUST 7 DAYS IN THE LIVES OF OF OUR FAILING NUKE PLANTS, OUR DARLING DEATH MACHINES.
AND I ONLY LIST THE "EVENTS" I FELT WERE MOST IMPORTANT.
~GRAND GULF NUCLEAR REACTOR UNIT 1
State: MISSISSIPPI
Event Number: 51800
Notification Date: 03/17/2016
VALID ENGINEERED SAFETY FEATURE SYSTEM ACTUATION DUE TO LIGHTNING STRIKE
"At 1515 [CDT] on March 17th 2016, Grand Gulf Nuclear Station received a valid actuation signal of the Division 2 Engineered Safety Feature (ESF) Load Shedding and Sequencing system. The actuation signal was most likely caused by a lightning strike to the offsite power source supplying this ESF bus. This caused a loss of the in service shutdown cooling system and associated system actuations.
"Grand Gulf Nuclear Station (GGNS) was in Mode 5 at 85 [degrees] F coolant temperature. Reactor Cavity was flooded to High Water Level with a time to reach 200 [degrees] F of 7.5hrs.
GGNS is conducting a planned refuel outage with core alterations in progress. Systems were aligned as follows:
"Division 2 Diesel Generator was OPERABLE and the associated ESF bus aligned to transformer ESF12 (115KV Port Gibson offsite feeder). Residual Heat Removal (RHR) system 'B' was in service in shutdown cooling being supplied from this ESF bus (16AB) with Alternate Decay Heat Removal available as a backup.
"Division 3 Diesel Generator was unavailable due to planned maintenance on support systems. The associated ESF bus was also aligned to transformer ESF12 (115KV Port Gibson offsite feeder).
"Division 1 Diesel Generator was available and the associated ESF bus aligned to the transformer ESF 11 (Switchyard offsite power feeders Baxter-Wilson and Franklin). Power was never lost to this bus. RHR 'A' and Low Pressure Core Spray (LPCS) were not available due to planned maintenance (tagged out of service).
"ESF 21 Transformer was out of service for planned maintenance.
"A suspected lightning strike caused a momentary perturbation in power in the 115KV Port Gibson line causing the Division 2 Load Shedding and Sequencing (LSS) system to actuate. This actuation caused a loss of Residual Heat Removal system 'B' due to being shed (expected). The Division 2 Diesel Generator started and tied onto the bus as expected, restoring power in 7 seconds. Shutdown cooling was restored at 1518 [CDT] and was out of service for 3 mins 13 sec. Reactor coolant and spent fuel pool temperatures remained at 85 [degrees] F throughout this scenario. Core Alterations were suspended and fuel placed in its designated location per the approved movement plan. Division 3 systems; High Pressure Core Spray, Standby Service Water System 'C', and Division 3 Diesel Generator were tagged out of service for planned maintenance. Division 3 Diesel Generator received a valid actuation signal but did not start due to being out of service.
The Division 3 bus was restored manually to ESF 11.
"All safety systems operated as expected for the loss of power to ESF 12 and Division 2 LSS actuation. "
WAY TO GO, BOYS!
GOOD JOB!
GOOD TO KNOW MY OLD SCHOOL CHUM WHO LIVES NEAR THERE WOULD'VE HAD OVER 7 HOURS TO RUN AWAY HAD THINGS GONE POORLY.
(YOU'RE OKAY, TONY, BUT KEEP GAS IN THAT CAR!)
TO WRAP THIS UP, BELOW IS THE MOSTLY WORTHLESS EPA's 'RADNET' CHART THAT SHOWS THEIR TAKE ON THE CHICAGO AREA SPIKES, IN GAMMA GROSS COUNT ONLY.
LET'S NOT FORGET...
St. Charles, Illinois, is NEAR Chicago, NOT IN CHICAGO.
AND LET'S ALSO REMEMBER THAT THE EPA WAS DAMNED BY THE INSPECTOR GENERAL AND THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IN OCTOBER 2015 BECAUSE ITS BETA MONITORS WERE NOT WORKING IN CHICAGO AND OTHER MAJOR CITIES, SO WHAT GOOD IS THAT CHART...IS MEASURING GAMMA ENOUGH?WALL STREET JOURNAL
Oct. 19, 2015
"A national radiation-monitoring system enhanced after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks isn’t working as intended, with nearly three-quarters of stations not checking for a type of radiation in real time, including ones in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles."
EPA officials said the beta-detection problem cropped up in 2006 when they started putting the real-time monitors into the field.
The agency can compensate for the lack of real-time beta data, officials said, by relying on each RadNet station’s gamma-radiation monitor, which hasn’t been affected by the interference.
Almost all radionuclides that emit beta particles also emit gamma radiation, they said. Both types of radiation can cause cancer.
ALMOST ALL?
IS THE EPA FAKING DATA LIKE JAPAN HAS DONE AND BEEN CAUGHT DOING AT FUKUSHIMA?
_____________________________
FURTHER READING, OTHER NUKE NEWS FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH...
ALWAYS FOLLOW THE LINKS TO ORIGINAL SOURCES ON THE SITE THE FOLLOWING LINK TO.
ANOTHER REASON TO MAKE THE ZIKA VIRUS THE SCAPEGOAT FOR ANENCEPHALY AND MICROCEPHALY?
~March 8th, 2016
~THE NRC"S "NEW" (2005) CATEGORIZATION OF RADIOACTIVE SOURCES
http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1227_web.pdf
"Sealed sources, unless they have been breached or are leaking, present a risk of external radiation exposure only. However, breached or leaking sealed sources, as well as unsealed radioactive materials, may give rise to contamination of the environment."
'WTH' DOES THAT MEAN?
ISN'T THE ENVIRONMENT "EXTERNAL"?
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