Entergy announced August 8th that its Arkansas nuke was back up

after a man died there in March, but it only made it to 87% power
on August 12th and then back to zero yesterday.
There’s no NRC event for yesterday’s downtime: what’s going on?
Meanwhile, the dead man’s family is suing Entergy, and Entergy
is suing its contractors.
Sounds like the Plant Vogtle circular firing squad.

THV11 wrote 8 August 2013,

Nuclear One unit back on after deadly accident
and
EBR staff wrote more detail for Energy Business Review 9 August 2013,

Entergy restarts Unit 1 at Arkansas Nuclear One power plant,

Prior to restart, the unit needed an extensive restoration,
including damage evaluation, repairs to non-nuclear plant components
and rescheduling its refueling activities.

The restoration was made compulsory following the collapse of a
contractor’s crane on 31 March 2013, while shifting a generator
stator out of the turbine building.

Hm, “made compulsory” by whom?
NRC?
OSHA, which
also investigated?
Arkansas?
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