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@Edano Gah - Kyodo News - big teasers. Will keep an eye out for the actual story

From NRC

SUB..IECT: SUMMARY OF OCTOBER 7, 2011, MEETING WITH BEYOND NUCLEAR
REGARDING THEIR 10 CFR 2.206 PETITION TO SUSPEND OPERATING
LICENSES (OLs) OF GENERAL ELECTRIC (GE) MARK I BOILING WATER
REACTORS (BWRs) (TAC NO. ME6040)
On October 7,2011, a Category 3 public meeting was held between the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and representatives of the Beyond Nuclear at NRC Headquarters, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. The list of attendees is provided as Enclosure 2.
On April 13, 2011, Mr. Paul Gunter and Mr. Kevin Kamps representing Beyond Nuclear, hereafter called as the petitioners, submitted a petition pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 2.206 regarding the suspension of OLs of GE Mark 1 BWRs.
The petitioners addressed the NRC Petition Review Board (PRB) on June 8, 2011. The PRB recommendations were transmitted to the petitioners bye-mai l on August 16, 2011. The purpose of the October 7, 2011, meeting was to provide the petitioners a second opportunity to address the NRC PRB.
As described in Management Directive 8.11, "Review Process for 10 CFR 2.206 Petitions," the petitioners are provided the second opportunity to address the PRB in order to provide any relevant additional explanation and support for the petition in advance of the PRB's final evaluation. The meeting was recorded by the NRC's Operations Center and transcribed by a
court reporter. The transcript is provided as Enclosure 3.
Members of the public were in attendance by teleconference. Public Meeting Feedback forms
were not received.

@lillymunster mmm

@elainekirk Make the executives at Excelon, Areva, GE etc. store it at their house. :-)
Maybe the Congressional parking garage since they want to keep making this a political issue?

From the Business Week article Audi-tek posted on the other page.

Tepco in 2002 admitted it had falsified maintenance reports at nuclear plants for more than two decades. Chairman Hiroshi Araki and President Nobuya Minami resigned to take responsibility. In 2007, the utility said it hadn’t come entirely clean five years earlier and admitted to concealing at least six emergency stoppages at Dai-Ichi and a “critical” reaction at the plant’s No. 3 unit that lasted seven hours.

www.businessweek.com

@elainekirk @elainekirk first heard of the incident

@elainekirk I was rather floored. Will have to see if I can find what happened.

Aaaaaahhhhhhh!

TEPCO’s internal probe located a memo written by an engineer of Toshiba Corporation, a manufacturer of the plant, that control rods fell off and an increase in neutrons was observed. TEPCO’s duty staff at that time also admitted this.


TEPCO also announced that control rods fell off at the same power station’s No. 5 reactor in 1979 and No. 2 reactor in 1980, but that in both cases the reactors did not reach criticality. Again, no report on these incidents was filed to the government.

On Tuesday, Tepco said two control rods came off at its Fukushima No. 2 nuclear plant's No. 3 reactor in June 1993 and at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant's No. 1 reactor in Niigata Prefecture in April 2000 during suspensions for routine checks.

Last week, it was revealed that in 1999 one of Hokuriku Electric Power Co.'s reactors in Ishikawa Prefecture suffered a self-sustaining chain reaction that lasted 15 minutes after control rods fell off.

Good gravy I think I need a drink.

Oh and the shrouds in all of them were cracked.

cnic.jp

the public says oh they are doing fine, everything is safe, the politics say give us your money and we won't control you, and the nukies are happy. the nuke ministry is part of the economic ministry and happy too.

Makes me wonder if any re-shrouding is going on in the US or if they are even inspecting them.

WTH!
'100 workers present at criticality accident'

The No. 2 reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station went critical in October 1984, as about 100 workers were still within the reactor container during a regular checkup, it was revealed Friday.

203.129.195.106

It also was reported to the agency that a problem during a regular inspection of the No. 2 reactor of the Tsuruga nuclear power station, and the accidental dislodging of 34 control rods in the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station, which were found to have occurred in 1997 and 1998 respectively, had been concealed.

TEPCO failed to report a problem in the No. 4 reactor of the plant in Fukushima Prefecture, in which 34 of 137 control rods were accidentally dislodged.

(Mar. 31, 2007

@elainekirk I'm going to try to at least write something up on this mess. I wouldn't have caught it if Audi-Tek hadn't posted that Business Week article.

@lillymunster we could do a tepco and a japan and a global?

Even more on the shroud cracks and other TEPCO oops's cnic.jp

Oh this is good:

All Japan Council of Local Governments with
Atomic Power Stations--an organization to help
support local governments solve issues arising
from the presence of nuclear power plants--is
promoting a "Spent Nuclear Fuel Tax" scheme.
Revenue from the fixed property value tax
on nuclear power plants has been decreasing
sharply.

States in the US should be doing that.

started the spreadsheet

@lillymunster and these are only the ones that do come to light and how many reactors is hitatchi involved with in USA

@elainekirk More shenanigans

Hokuriku Electric muzzles criticality accident



It was revealed that when a criticality accident occurred at Hokuriku Electric Power Co.’s Shika nuclear power plant No. 1 reactor on June 18, 1999, a power company operator made an inquiry by phone to an engineer of the plant maker, Hitachi, about the reactor condition.



According to a report that Hitachi submitted to the government, the Hitachi engineer received a phone call at his home before dawn of June 18, immediately after the accident. The operator asked him for an analysis of the reactor condition when three control rods fell off, informing him of detailed information about the position of the rods and the condition of the fuel. Then, he went to his office and made an analysis together with his superior. They reached the conclusion that the reactor has reached criticality, and conveyed this to the Shika plant operator.



Without informing anyone of the criticality accident, the Shika plant operator asked the Hitachi engineer to not report their conversation to anybody, including his supervisor. Although the engineer suspected that a criticality accident might occur, the information was not disclosed in the company.

www.japan-press.co.jp

@elainekirk TEPCO did the bulk of them. There are some doozies at other plants

@lillymunster yup I seee what you mean I will collect all that you find get them in spreadsheet put company in a column then we can decide if all or just tepco be most effective?