no link yet-local news just reported evacuation at Fermi Nuclear reactor

[Ruby Romaine]

n/t

[Guns Aximbo]

1. Hmmmm

Is it Fermi Lab in Illinois?

[blueknight]

2. where is this?

[Ruby Romaine]

4. Monroe Michigan (near Detroit & Toledo Ohio)

sorry!

[uppityperson]

5. google says Michigan

Please put more in original post but thanks for posting fast too.

[leftchick]

6. Near Detroit

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/nuclear/page/at_a_glance/reactors/enrico_fermi.html

[Junkdrawer]

3. This one?

Enrico Fermi (Fermi)
Michigan Unit 2 Nuclear system supplied by General Electric Company (U.S.)
Capacity
Net MW(e) Generation
in 2003
Megawatthours Capacity
Factor Type On-line
Date License
Expiration Date
1,111 8,118,826 83.2 % BWR July 15, 1985 March 20, 2025
BWR= Boiling Water Reactor

Description: Named for the first physicist to split the atom, the Enrico Fermi plant is located near Detroit. The prototype Fermi 1 unit operated at the site from 1963 to 1972 and is now mothballed.

Ownership: The plant is operated by the Detroit Edison Company and owned (100 percent) by DTE Energy.

The Impact of the Nuclear Industry on Michigan:
News item: Nearby fire idles AEP nuclear plant in Michigan
Highlights
Nuclear-provided Electricity Generation
Competition in the State Electricity Market
Environmental Trends: Emissions levels
Various Links to related sites.
Sources: Capacity, for purposes of this report, is the net summer capability as reported in Energy Information Administration (EIA) survey form 860, "Annual Electric Generator Report." Capacity Factor is a calculation in which the maximum possible generation (based on net summer capability) is divided into the actual generation than multiplied by 100 to get a percentage. Generation is the electricity output reported by plant owners on EIA survey form 906. Type of Unit: All U.S. commercial reactors currently in operation are one of two types: BWR (boiling water reactor) or PWR (pressurized light water reactor). The type is identified in EIA's Nuclear Power Generation and Fuel Cycle Report. Both the On-line Date and the License Expiration Date are reported annually in Information Digest by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.


http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/nuclear/page/at_a_glance/reactors/enrico_fermi.html

[Ruby Romaine]

7. yes that's the one.

the report was on channel 7 WXYZ TV

[Junkdrawer]

10. It's a BWR(boiling water reactor) - No steam generator, but a turbine...

leak would be VERY radioactive - at least in the containment dome. (Read could be a very $$$$ accident.)

[uppityperson]

8. They had a problem back in Dec

Fermi declares unusual event after monitor malfunctions - 12/28/2004
http://www.monroenews.com/articles/2004/12/28/news/news05.txt

The problem was fixed but engineers still don't know what caused the problem.

[e-mail]

By ANDY ROGERS

Technicians continue to search for the cause of an "unusual event" that occurred at Detroit Edison Co.'s Fermi 2 nuclear power plant Sunday morning.

Company spokesman John J. Austerberry said the incident involved a plant-monitoring device that was not functioning properly.

The device, called an annunciator, signals plant operators when there is a problem with a piece of equipment. It consists of an audible alarm and a panel that is lighted when a plant system is not working normally, Mr. Austerberry said.
ETC

[mike_c]

14. hmmm, they also had a problem with a turbine voltage regulator...

...in December during power up after a refueling shutdown. I presume this is the same event(?).

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041205/NEWS19/41205006

[Mabus]

9. local media link

http://www.detnow.com/

Breaking News: State Called to Fermi II Plant

By Action News Team
Web produced by Jenny Clark
January 24, 2005

State, Wayne, and Monroe officials were called to the Fermi II nuclear plant in Monroe early Monday evening to investigate what they would only call a "situation".

Authorities told Action News just after 6:00 that they were responding to some kind of situation within the plant.

Stay tuned to Action News for the latest developments in this breaking story.

[uppityperson]

12. You're too fast, must not have dialup like me. n/t

[Mabus]

19. Oh you're pretty fast.

It was just a matter of seconds.

I went to congress.org and started looking up various local media websites.

[Ruby Romaine]

16. thanks for the link-

I wonder what a "situation" means?

[Bluebear]

17. A "situation"

yikes

[uppityperson]

11. Link here, should be breaking news too?

http://www.detnow.com/wxyz/nw_local_news/article/0,2132,WXYZ_15924_3494434,00.html

Breaking News: State Called to Fermi II Plant
By Action News Team
Web produced by Jenny Clark
January 24, 2005

State, Wayne, and Monroe officials were called to the Fermi II nuclear plant in Monroe early Monday evening to investigate what they would only call a "situation".

Authorities told Action News just after 6:00 that they were responding to some kind of situation within the plant.

Stay tuned to Action News for the latest developments in this breaking story.

[Junkdrawer]

13. Post it...

Could be BIG news...

[Theres-a]

15. What!

:scared: My momma lives in Detroit.

[Blue Diadem]

18. Just heard they're on shutdown

no evacuations. That was our local news breaking alert.

[ClintonTyree]

20. Yikes................

let's all hope it's just a glitch and there isn't a real "situation". If there is, let it be minor.
With the prevailing winds being out of the North-West there would be a shitload of large cities in it's shadow.
Just don't think about it, tell everybody nothing's wrong, that it's going just great and it will all go away. Hey, it works for the Bush Administration!

[Bluebear]

21. "Is it terror-related?"

That will matter to the media more than any danger.

[drdtroit]

22. Huge meltwon there in 1966

Inspired the song by Gil Scott heron "We Almost Lost Detroit"

From NuclearFiles.org <snip>
October 5, 1966
Lagoona Beach, Enrico Fermi (Fast Breeder) Reactor, Michigan, USA - Partial meltdown. Reactor successfully shut down. It took 1-1/2 years to work out the cause of the accident. Several pieces of sheet metal had broken off the bottom of the reactor vessel and were swept up in the coolant flow, causing a blockage. The reactor had been operating at 15% of full power and was afterwards decommissioned. Four million people lived within a mile of the site. ("Les Amis de la Terre"; Penelope Coleing for M.A.U.M., Jean Geue A.A.E.C.)

also

From the Detroit News 1998

Snapshot of the power plant
    Fermi I operated from 1963-1972, interrupted for four years by the fuel melting accident in 1966. Here are some key dates in the history of the Fermi II nuclear power plant.
    1968: Edison announces plans to build the Fermi II plant. Cost estimated at $229 million.
    1970s: The Monroe chapter of the Safe Energy Coalition (SECO) sponsored several anti-Fermi rallies, including distrubuting balloons that warned of alleged dangers..
    1985: The Sisters of the Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and other opponents who own shares of Detroit Edison stock protest the Fermi II nuclear plant.
    1985: After many delays, Fermi II is completed and tests begin.
    1990: Judith Ellen Cumbow, a mechanical engineer, was killed in an industrial accident at Fermi II. She was decapitated while working on an air supply fan.
    1993: Christmas accident and fire are blamed on a turbine blade that snapped off and smashed through its protective casing. It took a year to clean up a million gallons of radioactive water released by the accident and repair the turbine.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sanders/214/other/news/fermi2.html

[Blue Diadem]

23. NRC just spoke to our local news

said it's a water leak. They are manually shutting down the plant and cooling it. They said no radiation was emitted.

[Pam-Moby]

24. Oh great, That is one hour away from us.

who knows what will happen next.

[Theres-a]

26. stay tuned...

:shrug: Will they tell the truth anyway?Nothing to see here folks,move along,just a little water.:tinfoilhat:

[Pam-Moby]

27. I agree with you...n/t

[DrWeird]

25. Would you say it's time to panic?

Yes I would, Kent.