Not so placid conditions yesterday at Connecticut's only NPP. "Control element assembly 14 dropped to the bottom of the core. To stabilize plant conditions, the reactor was manually tripped at 0341. This resulted in actuation of the reactor protection system (RPS) when the reactor was critical..."
Tony Nuspl
Yikes! The Millstone-2 #nuclear reactor in #Connecticut was manually scrammed yesterday after a control element assembly dropped to the bottom of the core. The reactor had been shut down since June 5 because of ... you guessed it ... a misaligned control element assembly.
