Fire At Oconee Nuclear Station
Source: WYFF TV
Oconee County Emergency Management Officals have confirmed to WYFF News 4 that there was a fire at the Oconee Nuclear Station. The Station has declared an "unusual event." OCEM officials say there is no public threat at this time.
The Oconee Nuclear Station is owned by Duke Energy and has been online since 1973.
We will continue to update this page as details become available.
UPDATE: OCEM director Scott Krein tells WYFF News 4 crews on the scene that the fire is out and has been contained. Krein says a transformer caught fire and burned for approximately half an hour before multiple local fire crews arrived on scene. The plant facilities were not evacuated and no nuclear material is in danger of being released. Oconee County Fire officials say that Unit 1 at the plant was shut down as a precaution. Fire and emergency management units remain on scene investigating the exact cause.
Read more: http://www.wyff4.com/news/fire-at-oconee-nuclear-station/38371590
As we saw at Fukushima, reactors need electricity to shut down without melting down.
awake
(3,226 posts)Ptah
(33,024 posts)BooScout
(10,406 posts)bananas
(27,509 posts)stonecutter357
(12,695 posts)Man tried to create an egg God can't crack.
eggplant
(3,911 posts)I hate to imagine what the runoff from the firefighting effort will do to the local waterway. Ugh.
questionseverything
(9,651 posts)like windmills
NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)questionseverything
(9,651 posts)as we saw with fu that was not enough
windmills would be a win/win
producing power when everything is going right,producing power when everything goes wrong
as high up as they are built now there are very few places that don't get a breeze at 300 ft
NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)What happened at Fukushima is the diesels were destroyed by the Tsunami. The BATTERIES lasted 4 hours, because they are designed to cover the period between blackout and diesel startup.
questionseverything
(9,651 posts)what never failed during the fu disaster was the wind mills
NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)Too much variability. It could be a high pressure day with calm winds. And the winds has to be moving fast to produce enough electricity for pumps.
No Nuclear agency anywhere would be so dumb as to rely on windmills.
questionseverything
(9,651 posts)Melted nuclear fuel from Fukushima disaster is missing, company says
Source: Associated Press
Naohiro Masuda, the Chief Decommissioning Officer of the Fukushima nuclear plant, said on Wednesday that operators have yet to locate where the melted nuclear fuel has gone, five years after the meltdown caused by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
There are melted fuels in units 1, 2 and 3, Masuda said. Frankly, we do not really know what the situation is for these (melted fuel), nor where it has gone.