Posted: Thursday, 31 May 2007 12:54PM
After Repairs, Indian Point 2 Goes Back on the Grid
BUCHANAN, N.Y. -- 1010 WINS - The Indian Point 2 nuclear power plant was providing electricity again Thursday, three days after going off the grid to repair a faulty valve.
The plant went back into service at about 3 a.m. and was at full power by late morning, said Jim Steets, spokesman for plant owner Entergy Nuclear.
The valve, which helps control the flow of water to the plant's steam generators, posed no safety risk, but the reactor had to be powered down for the repair, Entergy said. Indian Point 3, the other nuclear plant on the site in Buchanan, was not affected.
The Indian Point plants have had a string of troubles in recent years, and Rep. John Hall, the Democrat whose district includes Buchanan, said after the latest shutdown that "Indian Point can't seem to go 20 days without some sort of operational incident."
He repeated his call for an Independent Safety Assessment of the plants, which the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is resisting.
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Hey, great service here!
Just a couple of questions.
Is IPEC's record of "troubles as of late" way out of line with, let's say, any typical fossil burning plant, or any process plant, such as the Eberhard paint factory in Peekskill?
What I'm asking is this: is it just that IPEC is a huge news magnet, where trivia get reported helter skelter by over-eager newswires, anxious to stoke an ongoing viable hot-button story?
And as far as Rep. Hall, and his ISA.... Does Mr. Hall know for sure that an ISA would show him what he wants to find out?
Or is Mr. Hall dumbly repeating a formula phrase, one that came from activist Ray Shadis, and the New England antinukes?
(Does Hall really want a PRA, only he doesn't know what a PRA is?)
And further on this.... are candidates/office holders too strongly led up the garden path by partly faked claims & catchphrases of the 33% minority to be able to discern the wishes of the 67% majority?
They're just questions, after all!
Have a nice day.
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