Feds order review of Ill. nuclear plants
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February 21, 2006
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
Federal regulators have ordered inspections of all Illinois nuclear power plants following a brief emergency at one facility and a series of leaks of radioactive tritium at plants owned by Chicago-based Exelon Corp.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission ordered the inspections Monday, a few hours after officials at Exelon Nuclear declared an emergency at its LaSalle Generating Station in rural Brookfield Township in LaSalle County.
Company officials said the plant's turbine control system malfunctioned as workers were shutting down a reactor for refueling. At 12:28 a.m., operators declared a 'site area emergency,' the second-highest of the four emergency categories in the NRC's emergency response system.
The emergency was over about four hours later, Exelon Nuclear officials said. State and federal safety regulators said there were no radiological releases.
Exelon recently has come under fire in Will County, where the state's attorney's office earlier this month began an investigation into why the company did not disclose until recently a series of tritium-containing wastewater leaks between 1996 to 2003 at its Braidwood Generating Station, about 60 miles southwest of Chicago."
February 21, 2006
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
Federal regulators have ordered inspections of all Illinois nuclear power plants following a brief emergency at one facility and a series of leaks of radioactive tritium at plants owned by Chicago-based Exelon Corp.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission ordered the inspections Monday, a few hours after officials at Exelon Nuclear declared an emergency at its LaSalle Generating Station in rural Brookfield Township in LaSalle County.
Company officials said the plant's turbine control system malfunctioned as workers were shutting down a reactor for refueling. At 12:28 a.m., operators declared a 'site area emergency,' the second-highest of the four emergency categories in the NRC's emergency response system.
The emergency was over about four hours later, Exelon Nuclear officials said. State and federal safety regulators said there were no radiological releases.
Exelon recently has come under fire in Will County, where the state's attorney's office earlier this month began an investigation into why the company did not disclose until recently a series of tritium-containing wastewater leaks between 1996 to 2003 at its Braidwood Generating Station, about 60 miles southwest of Chicago."
posted by Greta Jane at Wednesday, February 22, 2006
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