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Alert at U.S. nuclear plant after ‘equipment malfunction’ — Official: There was “a little bit of smoke, so we had to declare this alert”
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WTVD, 5:49a ET (h/t Anonymous tip): Wake County [North Carolina]– Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant declared an alert early Thursday when an equipment malfunction caused the plant to lose power around 3 a.m. to “non-safety related electrical distribution equipment.” Officials with at the nuclear plant in Wake County said there were no radioactive materials being released because of the incident. According to Duke Energy, who jointly owns the plant with the North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency, plant employees are staffing emergency response facilities [...]
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Union Scribe
(7,099 posts)Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)in any electrical generating plant or substation. What smoked I wonder, critter on a wire?
NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)Sometimes a transformer will develop a current leak. The high resistance will then generate a lot of heat, potentially starting a small fire if not taken offline quickly.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)"The alert was terminated at 5:33 a.m. ... and it was an electrical fault on a transformer, like an electrical box similar to your breaker in your house, so it was running non-safety related equipment," Kim Crawford spokesperson with Duke Energy said. "[There was] a little bit of smoke, so we had to declare this alert. The plant is stable and online, no injuries, no danger ever to the public from this event."
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)One of the best if you want to find out what's going on in the nuke world.
Some of the news items there are read over 10,000 times!!
If one is a pro-nuke person and you want to sign in and post, beware. You may not like the reception the posters there give you. But for all the best background and details about nukes, there is hardly a better, more thorough source than the posters at ENEnews.com.
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nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)With no editor. So there is a lot of chaff, for a few jewels. A routine electrical plant failure falls in the category of they need to be reported, so it is wheat, not chaff. But as usual buyer beware.
NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)Electrical equipment fails from time to time in every power plant in this country. And I mean ALL power plants, as in Coal, Gas, Hydroelectric, wind, thermal, and nuclear. Hell, they even fail on the distribution lines.
This is Weather Channel level sensationalism.
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)If a coal plant blows up, it can be bad.
But when a nuke plant blows up it is like hell on earth. Thousands of people will need to evacuate; maybe to never return, nuke plant blow-ups are that awful. And all it takes is losing power!!
So it is good to know people are paying close attention to all these nuke plant problems.
Gravitycollapse
(8,155 posts)The specific series of failures that could lead to, for instance, a meltdown, should be made nearly impossible through redundant safety systems.
