Michigan: Nuclear Power Plant Shut Down After Leak
June 13th, 2012I’ve been following the Michigan/Indiana radiation spike meme for days, but I haven’t seen anything to convince me that anything weird was actually happening there.
And now…
Via: Reuters:
Entergy Corp shut its 793-megawatt Palisades nuclear power plant in Michigan on Tuesday due to leakage from a refueling water tank, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said in a report.
The company is in the midst of cooling down the reactor in order to make repairs to the refueling water tank, company spokesman Mark Savage told Reuters.
He said that the plant would return to service once repairs were completed, although he did not provide a length of time for the outage.
The tank was believed to be leaking from several locations, the company told the NRC.
The event had no impact on the health and/or safety of the public, the report said.
Also this one from June 7 in Ohio:
A FirstEnergy Corp. subsidiary said Thursday that they discovered and contained a pinhole-size leak spraying radioactive coolant at their Davis-Besse nuclear plant in Ohio.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/07/davis-besse-nuclear-power-plant_n_1578668.html
Thanks Kevin for following up on this. I too followwd this as it emerged on the Internets. My best explanation was that it could have something to do with the leak that was taking place in Ohio as tal mentioned, but after many days and many false alarm comments I myself began to believe this maybe was a hoax/false alarm but now this… Thanks for helping keep me sane.
My final thought on this is that when this story was in heavy circulation on the Internet there was news of a study that i am having a hard time finding again at the moment but it was about how few people it took on a social network to share something to make it a help belief in the network or something like that. I think the researchers had analyzed network traffic and determined that with the right users only .8 percent of the network would have to share it. it was something like that. Anyway, mass social experiment along those lines (this was on reddit after all) was my immediate reaction.
@j.biddy
Sites that I explicitly do not trust ran this thing from day one as a bet-your-life-on-it real story. I hung back, tried to confirm it, but found absolutely nothing.
If it had been real, I’m pretty sure that I would have heard from readers on the ground with their own radiation detection gear. Nobody contacted me on this one.
But then this nuke plant shut down… So, we keep our antennae up and try to avoid the gusher of bullshit out there.