Calif. has a nuke plant event

[ensho]

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php



One of several redundant security systems involved in monitoring the perimeter of the San Onofre nuclear plant stopped working for 45 minutes early Saturday, triggering the declaration of an "unusual event" that is considered the lowest level of emergency. Southern California Edison, the plant's operators, did not release details of the incident or describe the type of equipment involved, but Edison spokesman Gil Alexander said the system was not related to nuclear operations and no part of the plant's perimeter was left unguarded. "At no time was there an issue of plant security or safety," Alexander said. "At no time was the plant unsafe or the public unprotected. Nevertheless, when you're talking about a nuclear plant, you want all of the multiple redundant systems working all the time." The "unusual event" declaration required immediate notification of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, he said. "The senior NRC resident inspector is on the scene, observing how we
handled this," Alexander said. The system stopped working at 6:12 a.m. Although it was restored within 45 minutes, the plant remained on unusual event status until 9:50 a.m., he said. Edison officials were still trying to determine the cause of the failure Saturday afternoon. "We continue to run diagnostics and investigate what the cause of it was," Alexander said. "And we don't have anything we can convey thus far on that." Unusual events have happened before at San Onofre, and at other nuclear plants, he said. It is the lowest of four emergency classifications. The highest of them would indicate a release of radiation.
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[FreakinDJ]

1. I can't think of a more "Non-Story" then this

"One of several redundant security systems involved in monitoring the perimeter" - so 1 of the Fence Alarm systems stopped working momentarily ?

[ensho]

2. by Law all nuke plant events must be reported to the media

nt

[FreakinDJ]

3. as it should be - but this isn't worth repeating

[ensho]

4. so don't read any of my nuke plant threads

why stress yourself

[FreakinDJ]

5. Why dig up "Non-Topics" from Hungarian Websites

would be my question

[MineralMan]

8. You are incorrect. They must all be reported to the NRC.

The NRC publishes all reports on a daily basis. The Media, including your Hungarian conspiracy theory site, get their information from those NRC reports. You can access them too, at nrc.gov.

[SidDithers]

6. Whew, that was a close one...nt

Sid

[MineralMan]

7. Another "non-event" story from the Hungarian "crisis"

CT site. You know, you can see every incident report at every nuclear facility in the US on a daily basis at the NRC.gov website. Why not go there, instead of relying on a CT site that reports late on every incident, and where the reports are based on the NRC event reports anyhow?

In this particular one, nothing really happened. A redundant safety thing had a failed component or something. The other systems took over, the system was repaired in under an hour and everything kept operating. Why not save these hand-fluttering posts for incidents that matter?

Nuclear power generation is not safe. It has never been safe and cannot be made to be safe. That said, nuclear plants operate safely almost all of the time. They shouldn't operate at all, but that is not the case.