Brunswick Nuclear Sabotage Again? North Carolina Be Alert!

Once again another strange "Event" reported by the NRC at the  Brunswick North Carolina nuclear plant.
But before we get into the details of the event report, first lets deal with a simple question.

What would happen if all of a sudden the Forth Knox gold depository had a on site failure  that resulted in a loss of site Safety Parameter Display System (SPDS), Emergency Response Data System (ERDS) and Plant Process Computer (PPC)? 

Imagine Fort Knox being blind to what is happening in their facility for a 2 hour period. What do you think they would suspect might be happening? Now imagine that happening at a nuclear plant that has a reported history of sabotage.

Well you don't have to imagine it, because it happened yesterday at the Brunswick North Carolina nuclear plant. From  the NRC event report # 48019

LOSS OF THE PLANT PROCESS COMPUTER SYSTEM

"At 1757 EDT on 6/12/12, Brunswick Nuclear Plant experienced a fault on the Emergency Response Facility Information System (ERFIS) uninterruptible power supply (UPS) electrical bus 'A'. This resulted in a loss of site Safety Parameter Display System (SPDS), Emergency Response Data System (ERDS) and Plant Process Computer (PPC) for both Unit 1 and Unit 2. The cause of the fault is not yet understood and under investigation. No other major plant effects occurred and no major plant evolutions are planned. 

"During the loss of SPDS, the emergency response capability of that system was lost to the site. During the loss of ERDS, the automatic data transfer feature of that system was lost for transmissions to the NRC, however manual data transfer is still available. During the loss of the PPC, automatic core thermal power averaging and automatic core thermal limit monitoring was lost. Manual calculations are available for these functions. 

"Unit 1 SPDS was restored to the Emergency Operations Facility (EOF) at 1949 EDT. Unit 2 SPDS was restored to the EOF at 2030 EDT. ERDS and PPC remain unavailable with troubleshooting in progress. Both units reduced power to 98% as a conservative measure. 

"The NRC Resident Inspector has been notified."

The NRC has documented serious sabotage at the Brunswick Nuclear plant. They have also explained away some happenings, like not properly bolting down the lid of a nuclear reactor, in a way that can only be described as complete, total, and utter incompetence.

So what are we to make of the recent "event" at Brunswick?  Well, what would they think and how would they respond had this happened at Fort Knox or at a 'deadly force authorized'  nuclear weapons/materials storage facility?

Given its history, our take is that if we lived any where near or downwind of Brunswick nuclear plant, we would be concerned about what was either just stolen at Brunswick or what might have just been set up to happen next.

We would be less concerned about these things if the happenings at Brunswick were investigated from a criminal standpoint (just to be safe) versus the NRC method of relying on incompetence over malice.

Sabotage? Another Strange Incident at Brunswick Nuclear Plant in North Carolina!

The NRC reported an "CONTROL ROOM AIR CONDITIONING AND CONTROL ROOM EMERGENCY VENTILATION SYSTEMS INOPERABLE" event today, during the startup of Unit 2 at Brunswick nuclear plant. The failure might have been planned as a force multiplier in what the POTRBLOG team suspects was a SABOTAGE attempt to recreate Fukushima at Brunswick during the previous Unit 2 startup attempt on 11/16/11.

Today's event was a "condition that at the time of discovery could have prevented fulfillment of the safety function of systems that are needed to mitigate the consequences of an accident". We question if today's incident had actually been designed to prevent/interfere with the emergency shutdown which occurred during the 11/16/11 startup failure of Unit 2.

Given the history of sabotage aimed at the nuclear core of the Brunswick Nuclear Plant, the POTRBLOG team once again calls for the FBI to lead a criminal investigation into the recent most unusual failures at Brunswick Nuclear.

The POTRBLOG team believes that the previous 11/16/11 Emergency at Progress Energy's Brunswick Nuclear Plant in North Carolina was an attempt to attack the United States by using a March 18th 2011 blue print described by David Lochbaum, the director of the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Nuclear Safety Project, on how the Brunswick North Carolina Nuclear power plant reactor containment seals could fail resulting in a Fukushima hydrogen explosion.

The above information combined with a history of sabotage at the Brunswick Unit 2 nuclear plant during maintenance and refueling outages leads the POTRBLOG team to believe that the improperly sealed Reactor Pressure Vessel was a man-made attempt to recreate a Fukushima style Nuclear Disaster in the United States.

Also see:
How Many Engineers Does It Take To Screw Down The Lid Of A Nuclear Core?

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[MAXIMUM ALERT] NUCLEAR SABOTAGE WAS AN ATTEMPT TO RECREATE FUKUSHIMA IN NORTH CAROLINA

The POTRBLOG team believes that the 11/16/11 Emergency at Progress Energy's Brunswick Nuclear Plant in North Carolina was an attempt to attack the United States by using a March 18th 2011 blue print described by David Lochbaum, the director of the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Nuclear Safety Project, on how the Brunswick North Carolina Nuclear power plant reactor containment seals could fail resulting in a Fukushima hydrogen explosion.

The above information combined with a history of sabotage at the Brunswick Unit 2 nuclear plant during maintenance and refueling outages leads the POTRBLOG team to believe that the improperly sealed Reactor Pressure Vessel was a man-made attempt to recreate a Fukushima style Nuclear Disaster in the United States.

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BREAKING ALERT! History of MULTIPLE SABOTAGE Attempts at Brunswick Nuclear Power Plant

UPDATE 11/20/11 see the following link
[MAXIMUM ALERT] NUCLEAR SABOTAGE WAS AN ATTEMPT TO RECREATE FUKUSHIMA IN NORTH CAROLINA


Original Post Below
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Progress Energy's Brunswick Nuclear Power Plant has a history of sabotage during maintenance and refueling on Unit 2. The NRC had previously reported possible sabotage of neutron monitoring probes during such a refueling outage.

Additionally, the rail lines entering the Brunswick Nuclear Plant have also been a previous target of sabotage. One the same day as the rail line sabotage, a guard at a different Progress Energy Nuclear plant came under gun fire.

Given such a history of sabotage at Brunswick Nuclear and Progress Energy nuclear sites in general, it is unfathomable that the FBI would not have the lead in the NRC investigation of what likely appears to be another case of sabotage during reactor maintenance at Brunswick Nuclear.

Sources:
Wilmington Morning Star

Raleigh News & Observer

Indyweek.com

Also see our previous alerts on this matter:

!! ALERT- Brunswick North Carolina !! DANGEROUS AND NEAR DEADLY NUCLEAR PLANT INCOMPETENCE

POTRBLOG Predicts the FBI Will and Should Investigate the Possibility of Nuclear Sabotage at Brunswick North Carolina Nuclear Plant

POTRBLOG Predicts the FBI Will and Should Investigate the Possibility of Nuclear Sabotage at Brunswick North Carolina Nuclear Plant

UPDATE 11/20/11 see the following link
[MAXIMUM ALERT] NUCLEAR SABOTAGE WAS AN ATTEMPT TO RECREATE FUKUSHIMA IN NORTH CAROLINA



ORIGINAL POST BELOW
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The POTRBLOG team predicts that the Federal Bureau of Investigation will and should be on site at the Brunswick North Carolina nuclear plant to collect and protect evidence of possible nuclear sabotage.

There are two fundamentally frightening realities that will come out of the NRC emergency declaration at the Brunswick North Carolina nuclear plant.

(1) The NRC will decide that the potential level of nuclear incompetence shown at the Brunswick Nuclear plan falls within the range of what can be NON-CRIMINALLY expected for a Nuclear Plant operator.

(2) The NRC will find that what happened is OUTSIDE of what could reasonable be expected, hence it is prudent to invite in the FBI to help rule out a case of likely SABOTAGE.


If the NRC follows decides on action #1, there is no choice but to conclude that Nuclear plants are at MUCH greater risk of human induced catastrophic failure than has ever been admitted to, or previously planned for.



Our initial coverage of the Emergency Declaration at Brunswick nuclear plant in North Carolina may be found at the link below.

!! ALERT- Brunswick North Carolina !! DANGEROUS AND NEAR DEADLY NUCLEAR PLANT INCOMPETENCE

!! ALERT- Brunswick North Carolina !! DANGEROUS AND NEAR DEADLY NUCLEAR PLANT INCOMPETENCE

UPDATE 11/20/11:
We believe the circumstances of this incidence point to an actual case of SABOTAGE aimed recreating a Fukushima style meltdown in North Carolina, based on a March 2011 bulletin describing exactly such a scenario at the Brunswick plant.
See the following blog post for details and a video analysis.

[MAXIMUM ALERT] NUCLEAR SABOTAGE WAS AN ATTEMPT TO RECREATE FUKUSHIMA IN NORTH CAROLINA


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The POTRBLOG team believes this event to be one of the most startlingly dangerous and incompetent things we have ever read in an NRC event alert, frankly we would find this event terrifying if we lived any where near or down wind of Brunswick North Carolina (and we ain't a-fear'd of nothin')

On 11/16/11 an Emergency was declared at Brunswick North Carolina Nuclear Plant due to a discovered coolant leak after the reactor went critical during the STARTUP of Unit 2 at the nuclear plant. Today we discover that the reason there was a coolant leak was because "the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) head was not fully tensioned" Event Number: 47452

We take this situation to mean that Brunswick apparently has no effective policies, controls, or procedures to prevent them from improperly reassembling a nuclear pressure vessel, and no methodology for checking for such a failure other than bringing the reactor up to criticality and seeing if any nuclear goodies steam and/or leak-out. Moreover to alleviate the situation they had to manually shut down the reaction, which just so happens to be from a probabilistic stand point one of the danger points in the operation of a reactor.

Functionally we believe this situation to be the equivalent of a methlab operation failing to properly seal a pressure cooker and realizing the mistake just in time to keep the rest of the neighborhood from hearing the large BOOM.

Given what we know from the event reports, one has to question what was released from the plant; but more damningly one has to wonder how an organization can allow such an escaped defect to occur and still be deemed competent to operate a nuclear power plant.

Yesterday, Brunswick North Carolina had a grace of God moment that they didn't have their own Chernobyl / Fukushima. The ONLY SAFE procedure going forward is for Brunswick to STAND DOWN further operations pending a full debrief and corrective action plan.

We believe it would be wise for local residents in the area to take immediate precautions, and based on the evident lapses in operation of the facility to take long term precautions as well.