[VTenigma]

Yankee problems? Cooling tower supply lines leaking for many years in an underground tunnel contaminating soil and the Connecticut river with Cesium and Strontium. Cooling lines on a 40 year old wooden structure that collapsed causing soil and river contamination. Lost and unaccounted for nuclear material in the spent fuel pool. Unauthorized material in the spent fuel pool, on and on. All this is documented.

The undocumented stories come from friends that worked there (I live in the warning zone). Use of staff from outside areas of the plant for “hot” work during shutdowns to keep operational staff from over exposure. Known contaminated PPE not taken out of service (just marked by workers and told don’t use that one). Lots of cool stuff like that.

[chimera]

Can you provide the ADAMS accession numbers for the LERs associated with those events? The cooling tower problem was in 2007 and involved the fourth cell of the west cooling tower. The coolant flow through the cooling towers in a BWR-4 is condenser recirculation water and does not involve the primary coolant, so it contains no radioactivity above natural background. The plant continued to operate at 50% power because the loss of heat sink from the damage to one cell of one cooling tower did not exceed limits on heat removal capability.