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Emergency Declared At Oyster Creek Nuke Plant
This could get ugly in a hurry. Oyster
Creek is the same design, but even older than Fukushima, and acccording to Reuters, just 6 more inches of water will completely submerge the cooling pump.
Nation’s oldest nuclear plant on alert
(Reuters) – Exelon Corp declared an “alert” at its New Jersey Oyster Creek nuclear power plant due to a record storm surge, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said, warning that a further water rise could force the country’s oldest working plant to use emergency water supplies to cool spent uranium fuel rods.
The alert came after water levels at the plant rose by more than 6.5 feet, potentially affecting the pumps that circulate water through the plant, an NRC spokesman said late on Monday. A further rise to 7 feet could submerge the service water pump motor that is used to cool the water in the spent fuel pool.
From National Geographic:
In the wake of Fukushima, the U.S. nuclear industry has pledged to bring additional backup equipment such as generators, pumps, hoses, and batteries to keep plants operating in case of loss of power or water, but that deployment is still under way. Some critics have raised concerns about the safety of spent fuel at Oyster Creek and other nuclear plants, noting that the cooling pools where it is stored are not required to have backup power. Spent fuel rods are still radioactive and continue to generate significant heat for decades. Without cooling, the pools would boil away, leaving the fuel vulnerable to damage and to causing a radioactive release. Exelon says it has “numerous, redundant backup cooling systems.”
However, as discussed below by nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen, there is NO backup diesel generator for the spent fuel pool at Oyster Creek.
Read more here: http://dailybail.com/home/alert-emergency-declared-at-oyster-creek-nuke-plant.html
there is NO backup diesel generator for the spent fuel pool at Oyster Creek.,
WHY.
Cause it costs money to keep people safe Mr. Shadow, CEO of the Power Plant has to keep buying yachts and stuff.
We thought it couldn’t get much worse and this story comes out…
They must have a decent backup system at-least those engineers contemplated that a monster hurricane would sooner or later strike the most expensive real estate on the freaking planet…,
I mean look how much that plant cost to build it…”?” 20 billion 50 billion?
I don’t understand why these nuclear power plants don’t have a secondary reactor equipped with waterproof generators each housed separately, that could run these backup reactor cooling systems for up to six months or longer if needed…
Yeah there is NO backup diesel generator for the spent fuel pool at Oyster Creek…the pump is not essential because the PLANT ( Oyster Creek ) is CLOSED… for refueling ATM or when Sandy made landfall earlier …Its the second Lowest ALERT…of four NRC action levels …Anyway after Fukushima disaster , there should have been a back Up generators , regardless of weather the Plant was or is Closed or NOT… why? because citizens safety should be Paramount…& there has been about a dozen instances of alert-level nuclear incidents in the past four years… I mean SANDY was most powerful Atlantic storm to hit the United States…WHAT IF ? …ey… the Administration of Oyster creek Nuke Plant should be sacked…St**p** Fools…
p.s good news is … water levels has began to abate…Thanks Goodness…No worries …
I guess our fears should be laid to rest:
http://online.wsj.com/article/APa3ffaeccde6244d7ae5c1f1c15c80c91.html