Control room operators at Indian Point Energy Center Unit 3 will shut down the nuclear reactor by Friday, April 30, for the final time, marking the end of nearly 60 successful years of safe, virtually carbon-free power generation at the facility.
Brendan Pitre, Entergy Nuclear fleet senior coordinator of security compliance, assigned to Waterford 3 Steam Electric Station, volunteered to help in the massive Hurricane Laura restoration effort. For this, he was recognized by Entergy Nuclear for exhibiting a safe work environment and a passion for teamwork and received one of Entergy Nuclear’s Employee Spotlight recognitions.
Tori Robinson, a design civil engineering supervisor at Entergy’s Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, is an enthusiastic volunteer in her community and in the field of nuclear power. She received one of Entergy Nuclear Employee Spotlight recognitions in August.
From elementary school to high school, Mississippi to Michigan, Entergy’s nuclear employees celebrated Nuclear Science Week in a variety of places and ways.
Entergy’s Indian Point Unit 3 nuclear power plant returned to service following its successful scheduled $100 million refueling, maintenance and inspection outage. Control room operators returned Unit 3 to operation this morning, sending electricity to the grid after a planned shutdown that began March 13.
Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, LLC announced today that it has awarded a security contract to Securitas Critical Infrastructure Services, effective June 28, to provide security and related services at its Vermont Yankee facility in Vernon, Vermont as part of its decommissioning efforts.
Indian Point’s Unit 3 nuclear power plant automatically shut down today around 7:00 p.m. as a result of an electrical disturbance on the non-nuclear side of the plant. The disturbance caused the main electrical generator and reactor to shut down automatically and safely, as designed.
Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR) has received the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s notice that while pursuing license renewal, it can continue to operate the Indian Point nuclear power plant’s Unit 3 under its existing license, ensuring clean and safe power for millions of New Yorkers.
Indian Point’s Unit 2 nuclear power plant returned to service this afternoon, generating electricity three days after control room operators safely shut it down following a power loss to several control rods. Prior to this brief outage, the plant ran continuously for 627 days, a record for that unit.
The Indian Point nuclear power plant has made legally enforceable commitments based on state-of-the-art science to ensure that its safe operation will be closely monitored throughout the 20-year period of renewed licenses, experts testified at hearings that ended Thursday. A three-judge panel of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, meeting in Tarrytown, NY, heard testimony this week by technical experts from Westinghouse, Structural Integrity Associates, and Entergy.
The Indian Point Energy Center emergency notification sirens will sound during a regular quarterly test of the system on Wednesday, November 4, between 10:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
Security officers will be participating in scheduled training drills and weapon testing at the Indian Point Energy Center beginning August 18 and occurring on several weekdays over the next three weeks.
Control room operators manually and safely shut down Indian Point unit 3 today upon observing fluctuating water levels inside a steam generator.