REACTORS OFFLINE & IRENE TO BE CAT 3+ WHEN IT TOURS THE AREA

Thread: Two Nuclear reactors taken offline as a precaution....PIN

Not surprised.

Yeah, cuz teh cake iz a lie!

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YIKES!

and then hurricane irene came thru and boom!!!bye bye

that is a bit ironic, isnt it?

Which will saturate the ground and make an even bigger quake probable.

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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. "As far as we know, everything is safe," said Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman David McIntyre. There are seven additional nuclear plants that have declared unusual events, which is the lowest of four emergency situations, the NRC said. Those plants are located in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

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on CNN
saw steam coming from one of the domes in the power plant and soon as the stream came out the camera panned back and away!
did anyone else see what i saw?

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Seriously?!

You realize there's quite a big difference between a 5.9 EQ and a 9.0, don't you? It's beyond idiotic to compare the two.

i just heard on the news 10 nuclear plants now have had something happen....Not saying what if they really know.,,still they are checkin all out at this time

Normal Procedure, this is not Japan and there are no Tsunamis

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after Fukishima, it took stores weeks or months to restock, but just because people weren't prepared beforehand!

order yours now and prepare your family!

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even if it doesn't happen now, wouldn't you rather have a fwe bottles around just in case?!?!?!

Let's hope the quake didn't make any cracks in the reactor pools; spent fuel and otherwise

Our current Nuclear Power technology is the worst source of Energy in times of catastrophe. They're just accidents waiting to happen

Yes, and things in Virginia aren't built to withstand what things are built to withstand in Japan. It is beyond idiotic to not know that.

You are correct, Virginia is not Japan. Things in Japan are built with large earthquakes in mind. Also, you are not considering that a 5.8-6.0 in Virginia is like a much bigger quake in CA or Japan.

No tsunamis...correct again...however, they may be getting a Category 1 - Category 3 Hurricane within a week...and that baby is BIG.

Stay tuned folks.

Won't the jet stream carry anything east towards Europe? Like they did from Japan to the U.S.

Yaaay, spread the love people....

Apparently the highest EQ LANS was supposed to withstand is a 5.8-6.1:

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No tsunamis to take out the diesel generators; but that only half the problem! If the earthquake somehow has made cracks in the reactor cores the water will drain out and the rods will start to heat and melt. and you will be back to the Fukushima dilemma again, where you can add water all you want but the damaged core keeps spilling the water out even if you have your diesel generators online and running with full power.

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U.S. nuclear power sets world standard
The assumption that older nuclear power plants and an alleged lack of oversight are creating unsafe and unreliable power (“Aging nukes,” Aug. 7) is simply untrue.



The power industry’s average capacity factor — a measure of efficiency — has been within close to 90 percent for the past decade. It is impossible to achieve this level of performance consistently if the facility is not well managed and well maintained.

William H. Miller,
professor MU Research Reactor
1513 Research Park Drive

there is NO backup power for spent fuel pools at N Anna, and they contain 4.5 times as much as orig designed for!!




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Last Edited by TheNewRepublican on 08/23/2011 05:01 PM

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