According to the Miami Herald: A Pipe leak sidelines South Dade nuclear reactor.
"One of the two nuclear reactors at Turkey Point has been taken off-line because of a leak, nuclear regulators reported."
Nobody cares, the newspaper doesn't care: This was relegated to the back pages of the Business Section. It is just a blip on your daily radar screen. Blip, blip, blip (glad I am not in the neighborhood).
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You're right. The Miami Herald will give it front page news when there's an accident at Turkey Point that kills people. But people are so preoccupied with storms, traffic, whether there is a professional baseball team in Miami; who cares about a little radiation? Until people die, it's hands-off. FPL; no problem.
It was turned off "to repair a connection between two small pipes that lead to a valve. The valve is used for equipment testing when the unit is offline for refueling," said FPL spokesman Mayco Villafana.
Villafana said the although the shut-down wasn't weather-related, if Tropical Storm Fay turns into a hurricane, the utility may be required to shut down its nuclear plants two hours beforehand.
-let me get this straight..we want to put 2 more nukes there for "reliable and safe (snort)" power that has to be shut down in bad weather? What is WRONG with these people?
Ack, Ack! They had a leak?
Turkey Point is adding new reactors?
They don't publicize what to do if they do have a leak. They produce a booklet, but not all my neighbors have one. I don't have any idea what that book says, either. I suppose it doesn't matter, because in the end we are fried.
Especially those of you who got the book...you are in the dangerous radius.
what is the county mayor and homestead mayor saying about this? do they really care about their constituents? or is that care only activated just before elections?
mayor alvarez should have jumped on this. i'm not voting for him this time. he should care about things like this.
i am shocked that no political person has stepped up to the plate; other than the homestead vice-mayor during the state public services commission hearings on the new nukes. our homestead vice-mayor got up there and kissed FPL's rear.
yet, the same city council is silent when there are issues with the nukes 5 miles from where I live. nice job, city council!
Homestead and Florida City should pass a law: if there is a nuclear accident at Turkey Point, then local city commissioners should be required to be first responders.
Good Idea...I heard the Mayor of homestead at a meeting saying Homestead was happy about the two new reactors planned...ditto for Florida City.
what was leaking?
Anthrax?
you missed this shut-down:
No. 08-037 February 26, 2008
STATEMENT ON TURKEY POINT NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
Printable Version
At approximately 1:09 p.m. today, Turkey Point's two nuclear reactors (units 3 and 4) automatically shut down from 100% power in response to an "undervoltage" caused when two power distribution lines between Miami and Daytona went down following an equipment malfunction in a substation near Miami. The automatic trip of the reactors is a safety measure to protect plant equipment from abnormal power line voltages. The reactors are likely to be shut down for 12 to 24 hours, as part of a regular re-start protocol, with offsite power sources remaining available. Emergency diesel generators were not necessary.
There are Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspectors on site, and the NRC is closely monitoring the situation from its regional office in Atlanta and from headquarters in Rockville, Md.
August 18th from the NRC Website, reporting an August 15th shutdown:
SUBJECT: UNIT 4 SHUTDOWN TO REPAIR PIPING LEAK
On August 15, 2008, at 4:04 p.m., (EST), Florida Power & Light (FPL) Company’s Turkey Point Nuclear Plant Unit 4 initiated a controlled shutdown from 100 percent power to repair a leak in American Society of Mechanical Engineers Code Class 1 seal injection piping (ENs 44418 and 44399). The plant was then cooled
down and entered Mode 5 on August 17, 2008.
A leak at a weld in a 3/4 inch test connection off the 2 inch seal water injection line for the 4B reactor coolant pump was identified during a containment entry on August 7, 2008.
The cause for the leak has not been determined at this time.
The unit will remain in Mode 5 until a leak repair is made. Unit 3 was not affected and is currently at 100 percent power.
The NRC resident inspectors were onsite and have closely monitored the licensee’s activities since the leak was initially identified. Based upon current information, the NRC plans to conduct routine inspection follow-up.
The State of Florida was informed of the event by the NRC.
Region II received initial notification of this occurrence from the licensee at approximately 4:00 p.m., on August 15. The information presented herein has been discussed with FPL, and is current as of 2:00 p.m.,
August 18, 2008.
Region II Public Affairs is prepared to respond to media inquiries.
CONTACT: Marvin D. Sykes
404-562-4629
This is indeed a great website.....look at this one!
SUBJECT: CONTAMINATION EVENT
DESCRIPTION:
On June 10, 2008, the licensee reported that a plutonium reference source was ruptured resulting in the contamination of two workers and the laboratory in which they were working. (See NRC Event Notification No. 44281.)
The glass vial contained numerous isotopes of plutonium with a total mass of approximately a quarter gram and was discovered to be fractured during the late afternoon of June 9, 2008.
The source is used as a reference standard.
The licensee’s health physics staff responded and determined that contamination had spread outside
the laboratory into an adjoining hallway.
Contamination was detected as far as 80 feet from the entrance of the lab but was immediately cleaned up.
Surveys beyond the hallway have been conducted
with no contamination detected. All personnel expected to have been contaminated have been
identified. The lab and an adjoining lab connected by a doorway have been isolated, and licensee staff plans to commence decontamination today.
The two labs have a closed air ventilation system which does not communicate with adjoining rooms.
Two researchers who discovered the broken vial were contaminated on their hands. They were
subsequently decontaminated and subjected to bioassay sampling including nasal swabs, urine
bioassay, and fecal bioassay. Air samples were also taken in the lab. No results of any of these
samples/surveys have yet been reported.
Although the 24-foot by 50-foot lab is normally occupied by only six people, twenty-two staff use the lab on occasion. The staff members are being interviewed and will undergo urine bioassay sampling and nasal swab surveys.
The State of Colorado was notified on June 10. The incident was discussed in detail with FSME today.
Region IV expects to dispatch an NRC inspector to the facility today. There has been media and
congressional interest.
why does this remind me of Homer Simpson, safety inspector at springfield nuclear plant. Remember the last big local power outage? was that a staged event or what.
Homer Simpson, yes, there are a lot of them around...and I am sure they work everywhere! Every time I watch that show I think of Turkey Point.
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