Pa. and Tenn. have a nuke plant event

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php


The Unit 2 reactor at PPL's Susquehanna nuclear power plant in northeastern Pennsylvania shut down automatically at 10:46 a.m. Friday (8/19). The unit was operating at full power at the time. The shutdown occurred during scheduled, routine equipment surveillance; the cause is under investigation. "The reactor shut down safely. All plant systems are operating as designed," said Timothy S. Rausch, senior vice president and chief nuclear officer for PPL Susquehanna. He said a thorough assessment began immediately to understand the reason for the shutdown, and to identify actions that plant workers may need to take before restarting the reactor. Susquehanna Unit 1 continues to operate at full power. The Susquehanna plant, located in Luzerne County about seven miles north of Berwick, is owned jointly by PPL Susquehanna LLC and Allegheny Electric Cooperative Inc. and is operated by PPL Susquehanna.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the unit 1 reactor at Sequoyah Nuclear Plant near Chattanooga automatically tripped. The commission said the incident late Thursday night was traced to a coolant pump and apparently caused no leakage. It was classified non-emergency. Auxiliary feedwater automatically actuated as expected, the commission said Friday. The unit 2 reactor was not affected, the commission said.
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measures prevented any serious consequences.

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be alerted on. What's interesting is that anyone can go to the www.nrc.gov site and look at the actual filings of events involving nuclear power plants, and in much more detail. Here's an alternative link:

http://hyste.rical.hooey/fudmap/nonsense2.php

It doesn't have so many useless reports and alerts.

that had nothing to do with the Nuclear Plant at all except that the outhouse was on the property.


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is that they are unfiltered. They depend on people to post stuff on the sites, so quality is spotty, at best. That site also doesn't discuss the importance or relevance of any of its "alerts." So, a meltdown and a fire in an outhouse get the same prominence as "events." When such stuff is posted without any investigation on sites like DU, it's one more step away from actually informing anyone of anything. One more step away from the information actually having been checked for accuracy and relevance. So, people who don't really understand what the posting means may take it as something out of the ordinary, alarming, or panic-producing.

When I see this posts, I do a little research on them and report what I find. In the case of nuclear plant "events," I go to NRC.gov and look at the actual filings, then check to see if there has been a follow-up report or a resolution of the situation. As in this case, both events did not result in any hazard to the community, and were actually reports of the normal safety measures preventing any such hazard. So, they're really non-events in the first place.

I'll continue to do this when reports that sound alarming when presented as "alerts" and "events" are really not all that interesting.