Pennsylvania has nuke plant event

[ensho]

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index.php?smp=&lang=eng


Operators at Exelon Nuclear’s Limerick Generating Station manually shut down Unit 1 at 8:54 p.m. Wednesday following the loss of both of the reactor’s recirculation pumps after an “electrical fault,” according to a plant spokesman. According to Joseph Szafran, site spokesman, the plant responded safely and without incident after “transformers tripped internal to the plant.” When power is lost to those recirculation pumps, which send water back through the reactor, the unit must be shut down, Szafran said. He said there is no risk to the public and there were no injuries associated with the shutdown. Crews are currently working to restore Unit 1. Szafran could not say when the reactor would be back online, however. Limerick Unit 2 continues to operate at full power. With both units at full power, the site can produce enough carbon-free electricity for 2 million homes. Exelon Corp. distributes electricity to approximately 5.4 million customers in northern Illinois and southeastern Pennsylvania and natural gas to approximately 486,000 customers in the Philadelphia area. Exelon is headquartered in Chicago.
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[Eric J in MN]

1. Don't worry about nuclear plant accidents, they're "carbon-free electicity." (sarcasm) NT

NT

[brendan120678]

2. Seing your posts like these always makes me happy...

it gives me great confidence in the overall safety and efficiency of nuclear power.

[SidDithers]

5. +1...nt

Sid

[doc03]

3. They only have two recirculation pumps. We had 4

recirculation pumps on our furnace at the steel mill. We normally operated with 2 two electric pumps, we had an electric backup and a diesel back up. In a pinch we could keep the furnace from melting down with just one pump so we actually had three backup pumps. We weren't a nuclear plant and had more backup pumps then they do. Even with all those safety measures I lost all my electric pumps in a thunder storm and the diesel wouldn't start either one day. The only thing saved us was the power was restored in about 5 minutes. Are they a subsidiary of BP?

[AsahinaKimi]

4. ai yaaaaaaaa! I could only think of this..

D'Oh!

[doc03]

6. That's a good one, he practically causes a meltdown every

day.