On January 19, 2011 the Laguna Verde NPP Unit 2 was operating at 43.2% of rated power in process for testing. According to the sequence of events, it follows that: While testing for the load rejection signal, the main turbine incremented its speed. The main turbine control valves started to close while controlling the turbine speed. The pressure at the first step in the turbine was at 17 kg/cm2, with the control valves closed. Then, the pressure at the first step started to decrease until 4.6 kg/cm2. There was a main turbine trip signal due to the actuation of the Speed Acceleration Limiter, but this signal trip did not actuated the RPS, instead there was a reactor trip due to high pressure signal of the reactor pressure vessel. The cause was that the during the power rising process after testing of the Moisture Separator Reheaters the alarms associated to the bypass of the signal trip for the main turbine trip were not reestablished, therefore the during approximately 40 minutes the reactor operated without the reactor trip signal of the main turbine trip.
From the IPFM: During a visit to the Civaux nuclear power plant on 18 March 2024, France's Minister of the Armed Forces unveiled a plan to use the plant to produce tritium for the French nuclear weapons program. Civaux is a civilian power plant that belongs to and is operated by Electricité de France. According […]
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Jan vd Putte quickly changed from dressing as the pied piper at the protest during the IAEA nuclear power conference to warn for the Russian nuclear power conglomerate Rosatom and its role in Ukraine.
Anke Herold, Executive Director Oeko-Institut, Freiburg (Germany), in Brussels about the claim to triple nuclear by 2050: IPCC scenarios vs forecast development of nuclear.
