Virginia’s North Anna Nuclear Plant Reports Leak In Steam Line

[Flaxbee]

WASHINGTON — The North Anna nuclear power plant in Virginia’s Louisa County started powering back up Tuesday after a steam line that feeds a reactor turbine began leaking on Monday.

As WTOP reports, the North Anna plant, which automatically shut down following the August 2011 5.8 magnitude earthquake, was operating at 4 percent capacity as repairs were made following Monday’s incident.

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[kristopher]

1. The intermittent nature of nuclear power.

While the reactor was running at 4%, back-up power had to be in place to take up the slack.

These situations prove that when it is claimed that centralized fossil fuel and nuclear resources are better than renewables because "the sun doesn't always shine" or "the wind doesn't always blow" is false.

The distributed, renewable grid and the centralized, thermal grid require redundancy.

The evidence available to us is that distributed renewable resources actually require less redundancy than centralized thermal.