Posted on 08/23/2011 12:42:13 PM PDT by matt04
A nuclear power plant located in Louisa County, the epicenter of the earthquake in Virginia, has shut down.
The North Anna Power Station, operated by Dominion Power, has two reactors. The plant declared an "unusual event" in the wake of the 5.9 magnitude quake, which is the lowest stage on the plant's emergency scale.
As a result, the plant has been shut down.
The AP reports the plant is being run off of four emergency diesel generators, which are supplying power for critical safety equipment.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Roger Hannah says the agency was not immediately aware of any damage at nuclear power plants in the southeast.
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Perhaps it’s time to clean that keyboard? LOL
Of course they are.
Part of withstanding the quake is scramming the pile before something gets broken. They'll check the integrity of the reactors, turbine hall, and the dam at Lake Anna ... then start it up again. No worries.
The North Anna Generating Station is 15 miles from the epicenter.
If I could type it would not be as much fun.
Coal power is so dirty and nuclear power is so risky that DC should run only on solar power, wind power and burning bullsh*t. I hear at least one of these is in ample supply.
I think, based on Maxine Water’s recent rantings, there are two of those things in abundant supply - BS and wind.
Could have been automatic.
Exelon Corp. (EXC) said Tuesday that four of its nuclear-power plants have declared "unusual events" following an earthquake in northern Virginia.
Exelon's Limerick plant near Philadelphia, Oyster Creek plant near Toms River, N.J., Peach Bottom plant near Lancaster, Pa., and Three Mile Island Unit 1 plant near Harrisburg, Pa., declared unusual events in the wake of a 5.9-magnitude earthquake centered northwest of Richmond, Va., the company said.
LOL
I want everything that happens there to be 100% normal.
Actually it is not sensible. The one thing that is designed for an earthquake is a nuclear reactor. Now you have to recover from an earthquake without any power.
And the one thing required to keep a nuclear plant safe is electric power. Now you are dependent upon the grid.
It is actually dumb, dumb, dumb. But folks don't think things through. Before the Tresher accident the first thing a sub did with flooding was scram the reactor. Then the ship sank because of lack of propulsion. The rules changed.
I used to love Quake. My brother preferred Quisp.
Ahh, waxing nostalgic for those fights in the cereal aisle.
Hence the redundant onsite emergency diesel generators. The article stated the plant was running on four of them after the reactor was scrammed.
Are they GE boiling water reactors?
Unusual event is the lowest rung on the problem ladder. So they are not major problems. But we have 4 nuclear plants with unusual events along with the shutdown to backup power at North Anna in Virgina. The situation in Virgina is more serious and we have a Hurricane headed toward the area. Just another normal week on planet ape.
I think it should be converted to coal fired.
Post 38 was a response to your post. Sorry about that.
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