Cause of Yankee fuse failures remains unknown
VERNON – Entergy Nuclear engineers were searching Monday for the cause of an electrical problem that blew seven fuses in seven different power supplies to the control room alarms, putting the Vermont Yankee reactor into a low-level emergency Sunday night.
The emergency was called off after 90 minutes on Sunday, but the cause of the problem remains unknown, said a spokeswoman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Diane Screnci said Monday that Entergy employees were ‘still troubleshooting” and the cause of the electrical problem was unknown. She said it also wasn’t known whether the seven fuses blew one by one as a cascade of...
