Nuclear power plants in Alabama are on stand by power

[malaise]

Just heard the CNN guy talking about it.
The weather folks on CNN called them super tornadoes. He had never seen anything like these

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/28/alabama-tornadoes-nuclear-power-2011_n_854929.html
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A nuclear power plant in Alabama that lost power after violent thunderstorms and tornadoes on Wednesday will be down for days and possibly weeks but the backup power systems worked as designed to prevent a partial meltdown like the disaster in Japan.

The Browns Ferry nuclear power plant, one of the biggest in the country, provides power to 2.6 million homes. It has three reactors that are similar in design to the Fukushima Daiichi reactors crippled by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan on March 11.

"The reactors will remain shut until we have restored the reliability of the transmission system," said Ray Golden, spokesman for the Tennessee Valley Authority, which owns and operates the 3,274-megawatt Alabama plant.


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[alittlelark]

1. I'm hoping that's a good thing... that they have power?

I am so glad not to live in Mont, AL anymore.

[IamK]

2. where is the link????

[MadBadger]

3. CNN is on the teevee

so no link

[malaise]

4. I just added one

:hi:

This is devastation

[Generic Other]

5. This is incredibly frightening how close the area came to worse calamity

I can't even wrap my headc around the idea of another such disaster following on the heels of Fukushima. I am so glad the South was spared further calamity. What you see of the devastation is already mindboggling! It looks like Japan! Unreal.

[malaise]

6. It raises lots of questions given global warming

How safe are these plants.

I didn't even think about this until I watched CNN and heard the report

[TheWraith]

12. It's not "close to a calamity." Quite far, in fact. nt

[Generic Other]

13. then nothing to worry about

i am sick of worrying about these dangerous reactors anyway, so like you i will quit right now. no worries. reactors are fun. nuclear roulette. no worries. everything is dandy. until it's not.

[hobbit709]

7. The backup power worked fine in Japan too. Until the tsunami hit.

That was when the feces impacted the atmospheric impeller blades.

[malaise]

8. heheheh

well stated :evilgrin:

[hobbit709]

9. Japan, like many other engineering disasters was caused by bean-counters.

the seawall wasn't high enough because it was too expensive. The generators were in pits on the surface instead of up on pedestals because it would cost more to do it that way.

If you look at any structural engineering failure, somebody cut corners to save a few bucks.

[malaise]

10. Serious who could prepare for a 40 foot wave

That was a hard call although their ancestors did warn them

[hobbit709]

11. There were several engineers who pointed that out.

Did they listen? NNOO!!

Did the bean-counters listen to the engineers before they launched Challenger? Same deal-it was costing money so they overrode the engineers.