{"id":93,"date":"2013-02-23T17:27:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T22:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/low-and-down-recent-nrc-reactor-status.html"},"modified":"2013-02-23T17:27:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T22:27:11","slug":"low-and-down-recent-nrc-reactor-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/low-and-down-recent-nrc-reactor-status.html","title":{"rendered":"Low and Down Recent NRC Reactor Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nTwenty seven of 104\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrc.gov\/reading-rm\/doc-collections\/event-status\/reactor-status\/\">NRC status reactors<\/a> are below 100%,\nand 15 are at zero power.\nWhat happened to supposedly 24\/7 nuclear power?\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a title=\"Low Recent NRC Reactor Status\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/8500763003\/sizes\/z\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"  class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017c370e3c51970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017c370e3c51970b-pi.jpg\"  alt=\"Low Recent NRC Reactor Status\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFifteen are at zero power:\nCalvert Cliffs 2,\nCrystal River 3,\nDiablo Canyon 2,\nFort Calhoun,\nHatch 1,\nHatch 2,\nLa Salle 2,\nMcGuire 1,\nRiver Bend 1,\nSan Onofre 2,\nSan Onofre 3,\nSouth Texas 2,\nTurkey Point 3,\nTurkey Point 4,\nand Wolf Creek 1.\n(Seventeen if you count never-started Vogtle 3 and Vogtle 4.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSure some of these are down for good (Crystal River 3) and others have\nbeen down for a year or more (San Onofre 2 and 3).\nBut\n<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a title=\"Down Recent NRC Reactor Status\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/8500763165\/sizes\/z\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"  class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017c370e3c55970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017c370e3c55970b-pi.jpg\"  alt=\"Down Recent NRC Reactor Status\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nMcGuire 1 down since 22 Feb 2013?\n<\/li>\n<li>\nRiver Bend 1 down since 17 Feb 2013?\n<\/li>\n<li>\nHatch 1 down since 11 Feb 2013?\n<\/li>\n<li>\nLa Salle 2 down since 11 Feb 2013 and low since 24 December 2012?\n<\/li>\n<li>\nHatch 2 down since 12 Feb 2013?\n<\/li>\n<li>\nTurkey Point 3 at 100% only one day since 12 Feb 2013?\n<\/li>\n<li>\nCalvert Cliffs 2 down since 18 Feb 2013?\n<\/li>\n<li>\nWolf Creek 1 down since 4 Feb 2013?\n<\/li>\n<li>\nDiablo Canyon 2 down since 3 Feb 2013?\n<\/li>\n<li>\nSouth Texas 2 down since 9 January 2013?\n<\/li>\n<li>\nTurkey Point 3 down more than three months, since 5 November 2012?\n<\/li>\n<li>\nFort Calhoun down since 19 April 2011?\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nLocally, in addition to both Hatch 1 and Hatch 2 being down for ten days now,\neven Farley 1 and Farley 2 have had recent blips down,\nand Vogtle 2 has been below full power since 13 February 2013:\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a title=\"Local Recent NRC Reactor Status\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/8501871420\/sizes\/z\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"  class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017c370e3c5b970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017c370e3c5b970b-pi.jpg\"  alt=\"Local Recent NRC Reactor Status\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhatever happened to dependable 24\/7 baseload capacity nuclear power?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twenty seven of 104 NRC status reactors are below 100%, and 15 are at zero power. 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