Mississippi's Grand Gulf Nuclear Station Forced Offline

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The 1,372-megawatt unit at the Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, located in Port Gibson, Mississippi, and owned by System Energy Resources Incorporated (Jackson, Mississippi), a subsidiary of Entergy Corporation (NYSE:ETR) (New Orleans, Louisiana), tripped offline Monday, March 8. The plant experienced a feed pump failure, which occurred after a recirculation control flow valve malfunctioned.

Plant officials are still investigating the cause of the incident and are projecting that the outage will be short. The unit is scheduled to return online Friday, March 12, if there are no delays.

Grand Gulf station began operation in 1985.The nuclear plant has one generating unit.

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