Michigan nuclear power plant shows the problems we have reliably re-launched

Covert, Mich. – Target this fall on the shores of Lake Michigan to make this fall, the first reactor in the United States to restart the operations after the end of demolition.

The effort to restart the plant in the palparents near South Haven, which is closed three years ago, is a precedent structure that can open a way for other sTo return to the retained reactors.

However, he needed great renovations to restart the Palposades in a safe, stressed the problems that will face the industry’s aged plants again.

Trade operations began in 1971 in Palisade

The owner of the plant, Holtec International said he hoped Restart Palice in this fallapproved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Reboot Project The $ 1.5 billion loan guarantee from the Energy Department, $ 1.3 billion from the agricultural department and $ 300 million in the province of Michigan.

On Monday, the energy department confirmed the release of about $ 57 million from the loan, claimed that the Trump Administration supports the draft confusion and uncertainty on the Federal Foundation in Washington.

However, Holtec faces the main repair of the aging of Palisades, NRC can postpone a required schedule. Holtec announced that they found the inspections were damaged in the two generators installed in 1990.

These pipes are important components that protect people’s health. If a pipe falls down in a nuclear power plant, there is a risk of radioactive material to be released into the environment, According to NRC. Plantowners are required to demonstrate to the NRC, if a pipe fails, the factory would be below what radiological release regulator described as a “conservative limit.”

“NRC Steam Generator is afraid of the death of the pipe. He has been a very true accident since 2006 since 2013 since 2013 since 2013 since 2013, which has been retired since 2013, and since 2013 has been retiring in 2013, and has been retiring its nuclear power since 2013 since 2013.

Palisades are currently in safe condition, NRC spokesman Scott Burnell, steam generators are blocked and fliped.

Holtec President Kelly Trice told CNBC that the company’s “full characteristics” and “full repair.” The company called on the NRC repair plan to complete the investigation plan until August 15, but the federal regulators doubt the company’s schedule.

The head of the NRC department Steve Bloom, Holtec warned Holtec in the January 14 meeting that the work required to review the plan will “add a very aggressive table.” NRC’s NRC’s “very demanding” Eric Reichelt said that Holtec will be the regulatory body to do the necessary research in the “very demanding” meeting.

Reactor and the generators, radioactive water, which boils clean water, does not come into contact with each other. If a pipe is hernia, contaminated water is mixed with clean water and radioactive material, vapor discharge can be released through valves, According to NRC.

Holtec inspections, according to a company, found more than 1,400 instructions of corrosion between more than 1,000 steam generators pipes in Palisades To present with NRC In October 2024. The pipes did not fail, Holtec CEO Krishna Singh informed CNBC in February. According to the file, there was a corrosion cracking with more than 70% penetration.

Palisades Steam Generator Pipes, Palisades Steam Generator Pipes, Since today, are made of an alloy because of today According to NRC. Holtec said that the use of a higher quality alloy is the use of a technique for the repair of the expanding pipes, for the repair and damage to the damage.

“Our usage methods, the arm, which is called about 10 plants and some plants in the world, so it is not a new, exotic technology,” Trice said. “This is a common repair technique and we expect it to be done on time and schedule.”

Holtec’s repair plan is planned to start after the inspection and test this summer, and the press secretary Nick CULF CNBC. Holtec can continue in the table with pipe repair, but NRC will decide whether the repair will end the requirements in the end.

However, at the January 14 meeting, the NRC department pushed his statements that Bloom Holtec followed the company’s repair plan for the industrial precedent.

“If you quote, after a precedent, not exactly, not exactly, it is a different material, a different material,” it was called in a prosperous January session. Holtec’s repair work offered by Holt’s goal design was previously installed in steam generators, other heat exchanges in nuclear power plants, According to the information provided by a company.

The arms are made of an alloy indicating signs of shame in the US or international plants. The component has a service life that is not more than 10 years. Culp, Test and Analysis of the Arms “Supports the expected of longer term performance.”

Issues related to pipes are not changing of older steam generators, a expensive project that the previous owners of the palparians can be at one point, but raises the issue of resolving it in any way.

Consumers EnergyFor example, he sold the Palice Content In 2007, $ 380 million due to “significant costs required for the plant”, including replacement of steam generators Michigan State Service Commission.

Consumers demanded the supply of generators in 2016 in terms of energy and presentation. Energy but did not replace them after purchasing the Palice. The purchase of new generators will not be economically economically economically economically economically, and the necessary director.

“They felt by their experience that what they could prolong the rest of life, what they do as much as they do until the closure, he said.

In May 2022, graduates were built to dismantle the Palposade and the plant to Holtec. But Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer a Letter to the energy department Forced to keep the work-supported work and reliable, carbon free palisadadas in need. Holtec supported by the governor’s office First applied for federal support Rebooting palisades two months after closing.

On 15 February 2000, operators in India Point Unit, according to the NRC event report, received a non-failed notice of the steam generator. Combined Edison The regulator said that he gave a warning and closed the plant. It would be closed for 11 months, the cause of the tear was investigated and the situation of four steam generators was analyzed.

The hernia resulted in “a small radiological freedom of the environment that is good in the limit of the regulation” NRC Task Force Report. According to the report, the incident “did not affect public health and safety.” Again, the NRC is a con edison with one Red QuoteThe most serious violation was “high safety significance” after determining leaks.

There were no evacuation of neighboring communities, but the authorities in Westchester County were blind, John Edison’s nuclear power vice president of Nuclear power in the incident.

“We had all radioactive juice, but they are very intimidating to close all schools,” he said. “They would not allow children to come to school until they saw it all. It’s very serious.”

The leak was costly for John Edison. Utility replaced four steam generators each other Estimated cost of up to $ 150 millionfrom time to company data. The bill would be higher John Edison, steam generators have no longer steam generators. The utility had replacement generators since 1988, but did not install them. John Edison has paid more than $ 130 million in connection with 11 months of interruption in the plant.

Blind, John Edison decided to replace steam generators at India to reduce the risk of collapse of another pipe when the plant restarted.

“We were a company sold to the public,” he said. “And he landed off the board, he said we could not live uncertainly.”

Assistance Program Indian Point units for discount 1 and 2 In 2001, it is under an agreement covering gas turbine assets for $ 502 million. The sale was viewed before the tubing torn. John Edison estimates the loss of $ 70 million after $ 170 million from the Indian point sale, According to the feds from time to time.

He said that the shares of planned Palpers began again for the whole nuclear industry. The demand for nuclear power in the United States is re-growing again in the United States, the utilities and the technological sector are more reliable, carbon-free. Updated interest rated “nuclear renaissance” after the reactor closure in the United States

Zodiac signFor example, it plans to restart The island of three miles Plant that is subject to NRC approval in 2028. Calculation, the plant’s vapor generators were inspected and operated and the situation is in good condition. Nextera Energy declared Reboot in July 2024 is assessed if Duane Arnold Plant Possible in Iowa.

In Palisades, an event “would be destructive for the whole industry,” he said. “It would be calls to re-think about the opinion of this infinity,” he said.

Holtec’s culp will be continuously monitored to repair the steam generators in the palpitations, and the regulatory control will be inspected and in the service. The plant uses numerous defensive layers to protect our workforce, our community and our surroundings, “he said.

NRC inspectors will follow Holtec repair activities and respond to all requirements for safe operation of steam generators. “It is sure to protect the public and the environment from radiological concerns,” NRC spokesman.