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Inaccessible” North Carolina Nuclear Plant Declares “Unusual Event” During Storm-Driven “Hot Shutdown”
Duke Energy’s Brunswick nuclear plant, about 30 miles south of Wilmington, has declared a state of emergency as the 1,200-acre complex remains cut off by flood waters and and is inaccessible to outside personnel.
Just as we warned a week ago, The News & Observer reports, at this time, no one can come in and relieve the Duke Energy workers and NRC “storm riders” who have been on site for days, NRC spokesman Joey Ledford said. And it would not be possible to evacuate the 10-mile emergency evacuation zone around the site if a higher level of emergency were declared.
“None of the roads are passable,” Ledford said.
“The plant is safe. The reactors are in hot stand-by mode 3 shutdown.”
But as Intellihub reports, The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is being tight-lipped about an “unusual event” which occurred at the Brunswick Nuclear Plant last Saturday which forced a “hot shutdown” of both the plant’s Generation IV-type reactors 1 and 2.
The NRC classified the emergency as an “unusual event” but provided little to no details on the situation.
Additionally, the NRC reports that weather conditions from Tropical Storm Florence are currently preventing workers from accessing the plant.
“A hazardous event has resulted in on site conditions sufficient to prohibit the plant staff from accessing the site via personal vehicles due to flooding of local roads by Tropical Storm Florence.”
From the NRC regarding Event 53609:
h/t @tronictime
The current rector mode is showing as “hot shutdown” and more rain is on the way.
River waters in the area are expected to rise as much as 20 feet in the coming days. Not to mention, local dams in the area may be to capacity.
Brunswick is equipped with emergency backup diesel generators to operate essential equipment if the facility lost off-site power from the grid. Ledford said that the reactors never lost power and the generators never had to be activated.
11 Comments on "Inaccessible” North Carolina Nuclear Plant Declares “Unusual Event” During Storm-Driven “Hot Shutdown”"
george on Mon, 17th Sep 2018 12:41 pm
The toilets are backed up.
Here we go again on Mon, 17th Sep 2018 12:46 pm
No need to panic, everything is stable.
How many times have we heard that line before?
Sissyfuss on Mon, 17th Sep 2018 2:52 pm
What happens when accumulated sea level rise partners with a Cat 6 horrorcane in the coming years? Fun to watch, hideous to be involved.
JC on Mon, 17th Sep 2018 5:43 pm
please, for the love of Gawd, stop linking to ZH. It destroys your site’s credibility.
twocats on Mon, 17th Sep 2018 6:07 pm
for the most part – and especially here – agreed –
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-florence-duke-energy-nuclearpow/florence-flooding-limits-road-access-to-duke-nuclear-plant-idUSKCN1LX25N
unless you think its all fake news and reuters is just spinning the fallout. they directly site the NRC’s report. also, tight-lipped about what? the hurricane and flooding and difficulty of access are unusual enough to be logged as “unusual events”.
makati1 on Mon, 17th Sep 2018 7:28 pm
Jc, killing the messenger does NOT change the message. Are you too stupid to understand that fact?
makati1 on Mon, 17th Sep 2018 7:30 pm
When you build on the shores of hurricane ally, or, in the case of Fukushima, typhoon ally, you get these kind of events. And the Us has many on the Eastern Shore or close by. Fools.
Bloomer on Mon, 17th Sep 2018 8:08 pm
An unmanned nuclear power plant is that is in hot shutdown mode is that what they are referring to as unusual? Wouldn’t give me a warm fuzzy feeling if I was a Wilmington resident.
Antius on Mon, 17th Sep 2018 11:48 pm
The reactors have been taken subcritical to reduce decay heat levels in case power supplies are disrupted by the storm. A sensible precaution to take, though it does mean a lot of people will be without power for a while.
According to Zerohedge, the world lives in a state of perpetual disaster.
"Buddy" Meistermann on Wed, 19th Sep 2018 6:38 pm
remember, the lies surrounding Fukushima, until the truth had to come out
Buddy Meistermann on Thu, 20th Sep 2018 7:31 pm
3 days ago · But as Intellihub reports, The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is being tight-lipped about an “unusual event” which occurred at the Brunswick Nuclear Plant last Saturday which forced a “hot shutdown” of both the plant’s Generation IV-type reactors – JUST LIKE THE SEQUENCE REGARDING FUKUSHIMA ! ! !