Browns Ferry reactor shut down

Knoxville News Sentinel ^ | 5/24/7 | ANDREW EDER

[SmithL]

Operators at the newly restarted Unit 1 at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant manually shut down the reactor this morning following a leak in the electro-hydraulic control system.

While attempting to repair the leak, piping separated and dumped about 600 gallons of fluid onto the turbine building floor, according to an incident report from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

The report said cleanup of the fluid is in progress and the site is being monitored to contain the spill.

[SmithL]

Oops!

That didn't last long: TVA restarts Brown's Ferry reactor

[SmithL]

One thing that I don’t miss about the Navy was all the Nuc drills & spills.

[P-40]

dumped about 600 gallons of fluid onto the turbine building floor

A little kitty litter will have that cleaned up in a jiffy.

[dynoman]

Sounds like a hydraulic fluid leak. The turbine valves are operated using “electro-hydraulic control” a fancy name for a hydraulic turbine valve operating system. Nearly every turbine would have some sort of electro-hydraulic control, people hear of this happening at a nuclear plant and automatically think it is a big deal but it really isn’t, not from a radiation release point of view.

[Jonah Hex]

Stop wearing levis, call Sears&Roebuck? (Did they teach that in your days?)

[SmithL]

I don’t know that one.

[Jonah Hex]

That was an acronym we used back in my day for one of the nuc casualty drills.

[Jonah Hex]

*note to self: Don't use "acronym" when you mean "mnemonic." :-)

[Garvin]

TVA restarts Brown’s Ferry reactor
By ANDREW EDER, edera@knews.com
May 22, 2007

Browns Ferry reactor shut down
By ANDREW EDER, edera@knews.com
May 24, 2007

According to the dates on the atricles it was shut down before it was started. It must be a Democrat Reactor.

[Dumpster Baby]

[Doohickey]

I didn’t mind chlorides gaggers. I slept in the forward starboard corner of the 18 man so I didn’t have to worry about nukes waking me up on their way aft. :)