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Utility Searches Cooling Pond to Locate Fuel Rods at Closed California Nuclear Power Plant
About 4 pounds of uranium might be missing from a nuclear power reactor near Eureka, Calif. that has not operated since 1976, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, July 15). Pacific Gas and Electric on July 7 began searching the reactor pool of the Humboldt Bay nuclear plant for three fuel-rod fragments, according to the Associated Press. The utility was “very confident” the fragments would turn up in the 22,000-cubic-foot pool, said utility company spokesman John Nelson (Associated Press/KESQ News, July 17). Company analysts uncovered the problem on June 23 when they noticed a discrepancy in PG&E records, AP reported. Documents apparently indicate both that the fuel rods were shipped out of the reactor in 1969 and that they are still stored in the spent fuel pool, according to a letter from U.S. Representative Ed Markey (D-Mass.) to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission demanding an explanation for the incident (Representative Ed Markey release, July 21).
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