I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Palisades nuclear power plant is returning to the grid today after an electrical problem forced the plant to cut power for the second time this month.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokeswoman Viktoria Mitlyng said that on Saturday an electrical fault caused the main generator to trip triggering a turbine shutdown for Entergy’s 789 megawatt plant near South Haven.
“During plant shutdown, a valve that normally allows the steam that comes from steam generators to be vented into the condenser did not open,“ Mitlyng said. “When this valve failed to admit steam to the condenser another system, a backup system … relieved steam to the atmosphere.”
Mitlyng said that the incident had no impact on the environment or the health and safety of the public and that the cause is still under investigation.
The outage came just five days after the plant returned to full power from an incident that drastically reduced the plant’s power production for eight days.
On January 8 Palisades operators declared an emergency after an electrical breaker shutdown cut power to pumps and fans needed by one of the plants cooling towers.
“Back to back trips are rare,” said Arnie Gunderson chief engineer at the nuclear consulting group Fairewinds Associates, “…. both recent shutdowns were electrical, which suggests that there is an underlying root cause that has not yet been discovered.”
“Trips from full power are also rare, there were only about 80 in all the nuclear reactors last year, so [Palisades] is an outlier because of these TWO recent unexplained power reductions.”
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