Tuesday, September 18, 2018

No New Updates on the Brunswick Nuclear Power Plant


The Brunswick nuclear power plant operated by Duke in North Carolina reported an unusual event because its surroundings were flooded. here

When the unusual event was reported to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the operator had engaged in an emergency cold shutdown.

Of course, it takes years for hot fuel to cool and that is why continuous cooling is required for reactor fuel in the event of a cold shutdown.

There are no updates available today on the NRC site nor in the Google Search results for news so we have no idea whether the plant lost external electricity and is running on back up generators:

Search results from Sep 18 2018 9:38 AM Pacific Time (note all news is either 21 or 22 hours old)


In other bad flooding news, I read that coal ash and hog waste are contaminating impacted regions https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/17/health/hurricane-florence-pig-poop-and-coal-ash-health-concern/index.html

Here is hoping for the best for impacted residents - may the floods spare you all....


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    1. https://nuclear-news.net/2018/09/18/emergency-declared-at-brunswick-nuclear-power-plant-in-north-carolina-all-personnel-blocked-from-entering-the-facility-as-hot-shutdown-under-way/

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  2. no news is right! not even puff piece PR statements from Duke Energy.
    I am putting all I can find on my blog -
    https://flyingcuttlefish.wordpress.com/?s=Florence

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    1. ah,but there were puff pieces! http://caferadlab.com/thread-2696.html

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  3. THE WORST COGNITIVE DISSONANCE POSSIBLE
    What will you see at that site? Vote Trump. What does trump support?
    1. Subsidizing and keeping old beat up reactors open.
    2. Subsidizing coal fire as coal plants dump tons of radium, thorium, radium, and polonium into the air, water and food.
    3. Encouraging and subsidizing fracking that comtaminates major water supplies with radium and uranium
    4. Trump wants to start a nuclear space wars branch to the armed forces
    5. TRUMP SUPPORTS ABE WHO IS OPENING OLD DAMAGED-REACTORS IN EARQUAKE, TYPHOON RIDDEN JAPAN. ABE IS SHIPPING RADIOACTIVE FOOD AROUND THE WORLD
    6.What do these trump conservatives plan do to about nuclear reactors and nuclear waste sites, like the burning dump in st louis filled with radioactive garbage ? Well. They do not want to do anything. Thats socialism in their book .

    The reactor subsidizing, the subsidizing of billionaire hedge funds for nuke space weapons and tactical nukes is socialism to the rich. Thats good socialism to the trump supporters. Anything to clean up nuclear waste to help anyone else especially poor and middle class is evil socialism.


    "What Will Persuade Conservatives to do something about nuclear?" The same things that would persuade us to fight plate tectonics, entropy and the 2nd law of thermodynamics"

    This is their standard retort to anything they deem unnecessary in their book.

    They will do nothing. The reactors will just all miraculously close because, they are uneconomical in one breath. Then trump and the republicans are subsidizing old reactors and reasearch on new ones, in another breath..
    They will do nothing about the giganic amount of nuclear waste created by their corporate buddies. Huge criminal nuclear waste problems, that their buddies walked away from and left precariously to sit, for more major accidents.
    That would be socialism.

    What is it. Somethimg that coopted fukushima and the nuclear madness for politics.
    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/heres-youtube-became-powerful-far-right-propaganda-machine/

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  4. I covered the news here http://caferadlab.com/thread-2696.html and Unit 2 is restarted (20 Sept) at 15% now. EPA RadNet still off for coastal Carolinas.

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  5. Doing anything to cleanup the waste orstopit is socialism to them. Anyone who has tried to do anything knows

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  6. Anyone who has not tried to get abandoned nuclear waste removed knows nothing

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