Fermi 2 reported in "Safe and stable condition" - storm damage

[jpak]

http://www.monroenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100606/NEWS01/100609977

Federal officials said DTE Energy’s Fermi 2 nuclear plant is in “safe and stable condition” after it shut down automatically as designed when storms cut power and damaged a building at the complex early Sunday.

“There is no current threat to the public as a result of the situation at the plant,” reported Viktoria Mytlyng, public affairs officer with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s regional office in Lisle, Ill.

She said NRC resident inspectors assigned to the plant are monitoring the situation and are keeping other federal officials updated on the plant.

Storms knocked out power to the plant near Newport at 2:38 a.m. while the reactor was operating at full power. It shut down automatically when power was cut and emergency diesel backup generators came on to power essential systems.

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unlike solar and wind, we all know nucular plants are NEVER affected by the weather...like they were down South a few summers ago,,,


TVA Shuts Reactors: River Water is Too Hot

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/08/tva_shuts_react.php

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. And I am sure the nuke industry would immediately notify us

in the event there was ever any problem to be concerned about.

[madokie]

2. “There is no current threat to the public as a result of the situation at the plant,”

When I see those words red flags abound.

Add: If nuclear power plants are so important to our national grid why is it that we didn't even see as much as a glitch in our power supplied when this plant went down?

[NNadir]

3. Dupe delete.

[NNadir]

4. Unless one engages distortions, one can see that the capacity utilization of nuclear power in the US

and around the world is the highest of any known form of electrical generation 90%, nine times more reliable than solar (10% as measured in Switzerland, Germany and Massachusets), almost 4 times as reliable as wind (25% measured from EIA output/rated capacity data), and more reliable than the industries that support the solar and wind fantasy as a red herring for their continued operations, the coal fired electricity (72%, again from EIA data), gas (less than 50% but designed in most places except in renewable fantasy lands like Maine and California, to be so) and oil (see gas).

Still we have anti-nukes with their strange take on something called reality, trying to represent that this temporary shut down is a vast tragedy.

This reminds me of the time stupid anti-nukes wrote a long hysterical scare piece on another website about the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power plant in Japan, claiming that an earthquake there justified a long nutcase hysteria blog entitled "Situation Grave at Japanese Nuclear Power Plant after Earthquake." I'd link it but it was deleted by its author possibly because there were no nuclear related injuries at the plant. Zero. A failure to delete the long garbage blog, would have opened up a great case study in the oil and gas funded anti-nuke industry's mind set.

All of the loss of life from the earthquake resulted from falling buildings in nearby towns. Anti-nukes never argue for a building phase out however.

The reactors are now all restarted and functioning fine after repairing some damage to the plant.

Have a nice delusional day.

[Kolesar]

5. Half of the nuclear reactors in Ohio have been offline for half of this century

"Head like a hole" -- Davis Besse

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