{"id":6123,"date":"2013-10-17T14:36:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T18:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=6123"},"modified":"2013-10-17T14:39:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T18:39:39","slug":"nrc-back-up-many-nukes-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/nrc-back-up-many-nukes-down.html","title":{"rendered":"NRC back up: many nukes down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/10332660043\/sizes\/z\/\" title=\"Newly down nukes\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3735\/10332660043_220f9964d7_m.jpg\" alt=\"Newly down nukes\"><\/a><br \/>\nNow that the NRC is back up, we can see all the nukes that<br \/>\nwent down during the government shutdown: nine of them.<br \/>\nIf they&#8217;re not safe to run without NRC looking over their shoulder,<br \/>\nare they safe to run at all?<br \/>\nAnd two came back up.<br \/>\nWas that a prudent thing to do?<br \/>\nMeanwhile, solar panels don&#8217;t need an NRC.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEntergy&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/pilgrim-and-salem-nukes-scrammed-down.html\"><br \/>\nchronically faulty Pilgrim 1<\/a><br \/>\nwas the last to fall during the shutdown,<br \/>\nwhile Southern&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/potential-defects-shipped-to-farley-reactors-and-four-others.html\"><br \/>\ndefect-shipped Farley 1<\/a><br \/>\nwas one of the first:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/nrc\/reactor\/status\/newdown.timeline.php?zoomStartTime=2013-09-16&#038;zoomEndTime=2013-10-17\" title=\"Newly down nukes\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3735\/10332660043_220f9964d7_z.jpg\" alt=\"Newly down nukes\"><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" style=\"width:50%;float:center\">\n<tr>\n<td>30 Sep 2013<\/td>\n<td>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/nrc\/reactor\/status\/saint-lucie-1.timeline.php\"><br \/>\nSaint Lucie 1<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/nrc\/reactor\/status\/farley-1.timeline.php\"><br \/>\nFarley 1<\/a>,<br \/>\nand<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/nrc\/reactor\/status\/beaver-valley-1.timeline.php\"><br \/>\nBeaver Valley 1<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2 Oct 2013<\/td>\n<td>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/nrc\/reactor\/status\/d.c.-cook-2.timeline.php\"><br \/>\nD.C. Cook 2<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5 Oct 2013<\/td>\n<td>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/nrc\/reactor\/status\/palo-verde-3.timeline.php\"><br \/>\nPalo Verde 3<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8 Oct 2013<\/td>\n<td>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/nrc\/reactor\/status\/clinton.timeline.php\"><br \/>\nClinton<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12 Oct 2013<\/td>\n<td>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/nrc\/reactor\/status\/oconee-2.timeline.php\"><br \/>\nOconee 2<\/a><br \/>\nand<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/nrc\/reactor\/status\/hope-creek-1.timeline.php\"><br \/>\nHope Creek 1<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14 Oct 2013<\/td>\n<td>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/nrc\/reactor\/status\/sequoyah-1.timeline.php\"><br \/>\nSequoyah 1<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>15 Oct 2013<\/td>\n<td>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/nrc\/reactor\/status\/pilgrim-1.timeline.php\"><br \/>\nPilgrim 1<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>\nBack up:<br \/>\nExelon&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/nrc\/reactor\/status\/braidwood-1.timeline.php\"><br \/>\nBraidwood 1<\/a><br \/>\nin Illinois and<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/nrc\/reactor\/status\/wolf-creek-1.timeline.php\"><br \/>\nWolf Creek 1<\/a><br \/>\nWolf Creek Nuclear&#8217;s<br \/>\nin Kansas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/nrc\/reactor\/status\/newtop.timeline.php?zoomStartTime=2013-09-16&#038;zoomEndTime=2013-10-17\" title=\"Newly up nukes\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3810\/10332662443_7cb6f948dd_z.jpg\" alt=\"Newly up nukes\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nMy solar panels worked that whole time.<\/p>\n<p>\n -jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the NRC is back up, we can see all the nukes that went down during the government shutdown: nine of them. If they&#8217;re not safe to run without NRC looking over their shoulder, are they safe to run at all? And two came back up. Was that a prudent thing to do? Meanwhile, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,73,3],"tags":[663,8701,8702,12,7,117,8737,8731,108,8700,6],"class_list":["post-6123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear","category-safety","category-transparency","tag-entergy","tag-georgia","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-nrc","tag-nuclear","tag-safety","tag-southern-company","tag-transparency","tag-valdosta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6123"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6130,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6123\/revisions\/6130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}