Tuesday, August 23, 2011
The earthquake no one could predict shuts down VA nuclear plant: is FPL watching? by gimleteye
(Dow Jones newswire) A nuclear power plant in central Virginia has lost offsite power in the wake of a 5.9 earthquake centered northwest of Richmond, Va., U.S. nuclear officials said. The North Anna Power Station, which has two nuclear reactors, is now using four diesel generators to maintain cooling operations. The plant automatically shut down in the wake of the earthquake.
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That's exactly what is supposed to do. The back up generators turned on exactlly the way they were supposed to do too. What's the problem with that?
Good eye (Gimleteye). You've saved the world from nuclear power once again.
In other news, back up systems at Virginia nuclear plant work as designed even for a situation that would have been considered very unlikely. Reactors shut down, cooling maintained and orderly restart planned.
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