Do you know if Hartsville 1is up & running? I think it was one of the
first nukes built and its time for retirement was coming up.
At least I think it was called Hartsville 1. I guess they wouldn't call
it #1 until the next reactors were approved? I seem to recall hearing
comments about what you are saying about the govt & util in bed
together. No one was interested in reducing cost even at that early
stage. We offered (constr mgmnt) suggested ways for the crews to stay
inside the containment longer so we wouldn't lose so much productivity
going in and coming out 5 times/shift. IIRC Thanks for refreshing my
memory.
Man, I don't miss that frustrating work even a little.
LarryT
On 08/08/2018 11:20 AM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote:
Oh that’s the existing plant then. This debacle is about a new plant they
started to build and got $2 or $4bil into and realized it was never going to
work out. They actually realized that early on but kept spending on it. The key
was that the legislature voted a deal where the ratepayers funded the
construction out of bill surcharges rather than the utilities getting bonds for
it. So there was no incentive to economize or be successful. An alliance
between the gummint and the utilities doomed us. And all the same scalawags are
now trying to “fix” it while the utility execs are walking off with huge golden
parachute payments, courtesy the rate/taxpayers.
Great deal if you can get it.
--R
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On Aug 8, 2018, at 12:03 AM, Larry Turner via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
wrote:
When I was there they kept having alarms for "Airborne" which made everything stop until they found the problem.
Usually it was false alarms. It's been a while since I was there - seems like Duke Power & Light was involved as a partner
in the fiasco. I don't think Central SC is on a earthquake fault but most of the mode we installed were mandated following the
mess at 3 mile Island. We had to install pipe supports the size of desks to support 2" or 3" Fire Water pipe
"in case". I'm all for safety but there should have been risk analysis done. The work crew would go into the
containment, suit up (about 1.5 hr) then they'd go in through the safety doors which took another 1.5 ho for the crew to all be
inside. By now it's approaching 10am and at 1115 (IIRC) they'd come out, change clothes and put street clothes back on, get
lunch and then "around" 1PM they'd start going back into the containment requiring the jump suits, duct tape around
the ankles and wrists, booties masks hats, etc then start going through the interlock chamber (again iirc) and the whole thing
would start over. Of course they'd come out for their afternoon break around 230 and by the take they took their 30 min and
suited back up, etc, etc they'd be back in and if we were lucky we'd get maybe (on a good day) 2 hours of productivity. I
think the crazy break rules may have come from Duke P&L which I think was a union shop. But I may be confusing the
Airborne alarms with the Nuke I worked in Ill. Seems they had them constantly...
(This was back in the early 80s and things are hopefully different now) I
hope... And people wonder why nukes had trouble meeting schedules and
budgets....
Ahh, memories ;-) I'm possibly confusing the memories a bit... but I don't
think so...
LarryT
On 08/07/2018 9:13 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote:
Yeah I think. It was a complete disaster, not sure how far along they got.
--R
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On Aug 7, 2018, at 8:33 PM, Larry Turner via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
wrote:
Wow!
Is this the Nuke near Hartsville? I work there for the contractor doing Three
Mile Island mods to the fire suppression systems. It was short term while
between other projects. I worked on Constructions Budgets and Schedules but
the contractor I worked for was not mentioned below.
LarryT
On 08/07/2018 11:58 AM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote:
UTILITIESScana accountant testifies she was made to lie about reactor
costsPublished:
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
A former accountant for Scana Corp. has testified that top executives at
the utility pressured her to lie to regulators about how much it would cost
to complete a S.C. nuclear project that was later abandoned.
Carlette Walker, who was responsible for spending oversight at the V.C.
Summer project, had to give sworn statements to state regulators on the
increased rates that subsidiary SCE&G was charging customers to fund the
two reactors.
Walker said she quit in June 2016 "because I wasn't going to lie," and
named a former chief executive, a former operations chief and former chief
financial officer when asked during the deposition who forced her to lie.
A voicemail left by Walker in early 2016 was also played for the circuit
court judge, who is overseeing the civil suit that seeks $2 billion in
compensation for utility customers — the amount they've paid to date for
the project.
In the voicemail, Walker is heard accusing Scana executives of "breaking
every friggin' law that you can break," and propping up the project to hit
profit targets and collect millions in bonuses (Tom Barton, Columbia [S.C.]
*State*
<https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article216050955.html>,
Aug. 3). *— DI*
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