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Title: North Anna Nuclear Facility Loses Power, Shut Down After Quake
Source:
Richmond Times-Dispatch
URL Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011- ... uake-is-running-on-diesel.html
Published: Aug 23, 2011
Author: Richmond Times-Dispatch
Post Date: 2011-08-23 15:48:14 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 1450
Comments: 8
Dominion Virginia Power shut down its two North Anna reactors as a result of the earthquake, according to the the company. The earthquake was felt at the North Anna Power Station and the reactor operators, following procedures, shut down the reactors," said company spokesman Jim Norvelle. "It was a manual shutdown." The plant declared an alert, the second lowest level of emergency declaration, a commission spokesman said. The North Anna plant lost the power from off site that runs the reactors' cooling systems, Norvelle said, but the plant's four backup diesel generators started as designed. Officials are assessing the plant for damage, said the NRC's Joey Ledford. "Our workers are doing a walkdown of the site as we speak," Norvelle said. The North Anna plant employs about 1,000 workers, Dominion Virginia Power said. Dominion Virginia Power's Surry Power Station is operating as normal, he said.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
the plant was designed to withstand a 6.0 quake. This one was 5.8.
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One problem with this news story: all nuclear power plant operators lie.
First rule of scrambled Nukes. The workers will flee.
They are inbred liars. They have to lie. Lying about nuclear power is nearly reflexive so we can’t take them at face value since not one nuclear power operator or nuclear bomb user has ever, ever told the truth about ANYTHING. They can’t. They won’t. They dare not. All 442 nukes are going to melt down. 11 are in process in Japan right now....;}
Don't worry VP Plugs Biden is over there trading oily Shrimp, for radioactive Sushi.
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Only way you could ever get me to eat that worm infested shit (sushi) would be to nuke it to a 'crisp'...
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
And then Cat 3 Irene came to Virginia and knocked the High wire Transmission Lines down... The End...;}
If the Reactors do a Fukushima, DC's uninhabitable. So at least there's that....;}
#2. To: go65 (#1)
the plant was designed to withstand a 6.0 quake. This one was 5.8.
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#5. To: mcgowanjm, *The Two Parties ARE the Same* (#4)
11 are in process in Japan right now....;}
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#6. To: hondo68 (#5)
trading oily Shrimp, for radioactive Sushi.
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