Hurricane Irene knocked a nuclear reactor offline at Calvert Cliffs

This couldn't have happened because everyone on here says this hurricane is a dud?

A heavy gust of wind knocked a large piece of aluminum siding from the building and in contact with a main transformer.

I'm surprised it's not posted om Enenews yet.

[link to enenews.com]

Earlier I read: Constellation Energy says its Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant is operating at 100 percent. The company says nuclear reactors are designed to withstand extreme weather conditions, and it expects both reactors to remain online through the storm.

Able to withstand extreme weather conditions, huh...winds are 33mph here..wtf


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Earlier I read: Constellation Energy says its Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant is operating at 100 percent. The company says nuclear reactors are designed to withstand extreme weather conditions, and it expects both reactors to remain online through the storm.

Able to withstand extreme weather conditions, huh...winds are 33mph here..wtf


Read more: [link to www.abc2news.com]

Anything with christian association by name is marked for destruction by Yahweh

Of course the morons had it running full blast. Because nothing could possibly go wrong.

Oops, something went wrong? Geez who'da thunk.

Nuclear engineers are clearly the biggest idiots on the plant.

on cnn now

I was watching the reporters as they got the news live lol.

they both looked stunned while gazing into their laptops!

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH THEY'RE DUMBASSES

Nuclear Power Plant that can't withstand a wind gust..unreal

THis thing could hide some very heavy wind gusts in itself, that appear suddenly. If encountering hot air b.e.

go read

We are having wind gusts up to 50mph...that is not even hurricane force winds

especially when they've all done rather well in hurricanes in the past.. suddenly, nuke plants all over are having "unusual events" left and right

This plant is right on the water, Fukushima style.

This whole thing just doesn't seem real...or at least over-hyped. There is some woman on MSNBC standing there, no rain, very little breeze, standing there with a little anemometer in her hand spinning around....silly shit. Any other hurricane you have reporters getting half blown over, driving wind and rain. Not this one. Something weird about this whole operation.

Exactly!

Unit 1 & 2 each takes in bay water (from the fenced-in area) to cool its steam driven turbine condensers plus other bay water cooled primary and secondary system heat exchangers. The bay water is pumped out at a nominal flow rate of 1.2 million gallons per minute (75,000 L/s) per unit (Unit 1 and 2) for each steam turbine condenser. The water is returned to the bay no more than 12 °F (6.7 °C) warmer than the bay water. Unlike many other nuclear power plants, Calvert Cliffs did not have to utilize water cooling towers to return the hot water to its original temperature.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

This is the same plant that was shut down back in February from SNOW...melting snow leaked through the roof and and both reactors shut down. Now wind shuts down a reactor.

[link to articles.baltimoresun.com]

Well someone didn't do their job here...U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission..The NRC’s regional offices have already made sure that appropriate equipment, including satellite phones, are available and operational. Before hurricane season even begins, the staff ensures that hurricane response training, computer programs and emergency contact information are all up to date. NRC inspectors also confirm that nuclear power plants in hurricane-prone areas have completed their extensive hurricane
preparations.
All the reactors are operating at full power, but the plants' procedures require that they shut down prior to any predicted hurricane force winds on site. The plants' emergency diesel generators are available if off-site power is lost during the storm. All plants have flood protection above the
predicted storm surge, and key components and systems also are housed in watertight buildings capable of withstanding hurricane force winds and flooding.The agency is continuously tracking Hurricane Irene using the resources of all federal agencies and several weather forecasting services.



[link to www.nrc.gov]

This plant has "unusual events" often....

any new info on this plant??

Constellation Energy Group Inc. (CEG)’s Unit 1 at its Calvert Cliffs plant in Maryland shut down automatically when a piece of aluminum siding, ripped from a nearby building by Irene’s winds, crashed into a transformer, causing an explosion. The unit “remains in safe shutdown,” Constellation said in a statement.
“We will not bring the unit back online until all required precautionary testing has been completed,” the company said. A second Calvert Cliffs reactor remains at full power.

[link to www.bloomberg.com]

FFS how long can it safely be offline?

Security Faulted at Calvert Cliffs Plant article dated 8/17/2011


HOLLYWOOD, Md. -- Federal regulators found gaps in the security measures at Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant after a six-month inspection at the twin reactor site in Lusby, though the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will not release the specific details of the issues.

Neil Sheehan, spokesman for the NRC, said that a letter from a nuclear reactor safety regulator to Constellation Energy Nuclear Group, which owns and operates the site, informs the public of the issue in basic terms only.

“Because this involves security there’s not much detail,” Sheehan said of the public announcement. “That goes back to 9/11.”

[link to somd.com]