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http://michiganmessenger.com/52811/entergy-faces-another-special-investigation-over-malfunction-at-palisades


Entergy faces another special investigation over malfunction at Palisades


The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has sent a special investigation team to Entergy’s Palisades nuclear power plant to examine the circumstances around the plant’s latest unplanned shutdown.

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“The issue involved plant workers who were performing maintenance activities on an electrical panel when a small metal piece located inside the breaker panel came into contact with another metal piece and caused an arc,” the NRC said Wednesday. “This resulted in a series of electrical issues that caused the plant to shut down and sent signals to multiple plant systems causing certain safety pumps to start and some safety valves to reposition.”

Officials say the plant has been controlling temperature by venting steam, that contains low levels of tritium, into in the environment.

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“Entergy and certain of its personnel have acted in at best an untrustworthy manner,“ Sorrell said in July after a months long probe, “however we lack the smoking gun evidence to prove to our satisfaction that this untrustworthy behavior is criminal.”

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now we will see how honest the NRC is