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Palisades owners try to ease fears over radioactive leak
COVERT TOWNSHIP, Mich. – The owners of the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant have some challenges on their hands. First – find out what caused a leak that let nearly 80 gallons of radioactive water into Lake Michigan. The other priority...
Tags: Nuclear Accidents
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Upton, NRC to visit Palisades Nuclear Power Plant Monday
VAN BUREN COUNTY -- Michigan Congressman Fred Upton, R- St. Joseph, along with a commissioner from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will head to southwest Michigan today, to get a first-hand look at the troubled Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Van...
Tags: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Manufacturing and Engineering, Defense Equipment, Fred Upton, Entergy Corporation
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UPDATE: Palisades nuclear plant shut down indefinitely
COVERT TOWNSHIP, Mich. – The Palisades Nuclear Power Plant will remain shut down indefinitely to guarantee it will be a safely-run facility. That was the message late Monday afternoon from southwest Michigan Congressman Fred Upton after a 2-hour...
Tags: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Entergy Corporation
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NRC commissioner, congressman to visit Palisades nuke plant
COVERT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A Nuclear Regulatory Commission member and a Michigan congressman plan to visit the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant, which was taken off line over a repeated water leak problem. New Orleans-based Entergy Corp. shut...
Tags: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Entergy Corporation
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Upton urges Palisades to stay closed for now
Stay offline until a permanent fix is found. That's the advice Michigan Congressman Fred Upton has for a troubled southwest Michigan nuclear power plant. Last weekend, a leak at the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant In Van Buren County sent radioactive...
Tags: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Manufacturing and Engineering, Defense Equipment, U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Entergy Corporation
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Search for radioactive leak at Palisades nuclear plant
WSBT-TVVAN BUREN COUNTY, Mich. – Government regulators and the operators of a nuclear power plant are trying to figure out why several gallons of radioactive water leaked into Lake Michigan over the weekend. The Palisades nuclear power plant remains...Tags: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Nuclear Accidents, Plant Openings, Lake Michigan
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Nuclear plant operator: "Radioactive water" no human health risk
VAN BUREN COUNTY, Mich. – Palisades Nuclear Power plant in Covert Township was shut down again over the weekend. On Monday, a federal safety official announced 79 gallons of "very slightly radioactive water" from a leaky tank at the plant...
Tags: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Politics, Regulatory Policy and Organizations, Entergy Corporation
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Palisades nuke power plant shuts after water leak
COVERT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Operators of the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in southwestern Michigan removed it from service Sunday morning because of a water leak from a tank, which last year caused seepage into the control room. Operators...Tags: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Entergy Corporation
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Work to boost Palisades plant safety
SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. (AP) — More work and hundreds of hours of additional inspections are planned over the coming year to help continue improving safety at the Palisades nuclear plant in southwestern Michigan, officials said. The Nuclear...
Tags: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Entergy Corporation
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Palisades gets safe report
COVERT, Mich. – The much maligned Palisades Nuclear Power Plant got some good news – a safe 2012. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission released a study that said the Van Buren County plant operated safely last year. Two NRC inspectors are...
Tags: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Palisades nuclear power plant back online
VAN BUREN COUNTY -- A troubled nuclear power plant in southwest Michigan is back open, one week after operators shut it down. A spokesman for the Palisades plant in Van Buren County says the facility returned to service just before 1 a.m. Friday....
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NRC reviewing leak at Palisades power plant
WSBT-TVCOVERT TOWNSHIP, Mich. – The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is investigating a leak at the Palisades nuclear plant in Van Buren County. Palisades shut down last Friday after several days of problems with the plant’s cooling water heat...Tags: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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