Dive Summary:
- Entergy Corp. shut down its Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Michigan Sunday morning after water leaked from a tank, which led to seepage into the control room last year.
- Operators will repair the leaking safety injection/refueling water tank which exceeded a 38-gallon daily leak limit set after last year's repairs. Since September 2011, operators have been forced to shut the plant down nine times.
- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said the plant, located 80 miles northeast from Chicago, will have to undergo 1,000 hours of inspection beyond the 2,000 hours of baseline inspections annually.
From the article:
"In September 2012, the NRC conducted an 11-day inspection of the plant and determined that its operators had "adequately addressed" problems identified in 2011. But it said additional oversight was needed to ensure that remaining corrective actions were properly carried out and that the cause of leaks earlier that year would be understood so they wouldn't lead to new problems."
