Published: June 5th, 2011 at 5:12 am ET
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Pa. nuclear plant has 3rd shutdown in 1 week, AP, June 04, 2011:
Reactors at an eastern Pennsylvania nuclear plant have shut down unexpectedly three times in the past week, but regulatory authorities say no safety problems have been reported.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says Unit 1 of Exelon Nuclear’s Limerick Generating Station shut down at 10:15 a.m. Friday. [...]
The shutdown came less than a day after the plant put the Unit 2 reactor back online following unplanned shutdowns Sunday and Monday. [...]
Published: June 5th, 2011 at 5:12 am ET
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Just reboot and continue….
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Pennsylvania Limerick reactor significant Earthquake Risk as well as Design Problems. Same Design as Fukushima….
http://www.dailylocal.com/articles/2011/03/16/news/doc4d80f8916b538763427790.txt
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50664058/General-Electric-designed-reactors-in-Fukushima-have-23-sisters-in-U-S-with-History-of-GE-in-Nuclear-Energy
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geee wiz… If it keeps shutting down perhaps it is sending them a message..
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If the reactor is trying to send somebody in Pennsylvania a message… Good Luck, nobody hear smart enough to read.
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Deafness alone doesn’t hinder one’s ability to read; however, a poor vocabulary does cramp conversation.
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As do totally irrelevant ad hominems…
Glass houses, stones..grammar nazis, etc.
As for Limerick, Penn – is anyone asking what process controllers they use? If Siemens SCADA, is anyone asking about the Stuxnet virus?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8326387/Israel-video-shows-Stuxnet-as-one-of-its-successes.html
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From their website:
“Limerick is built on a 600-acre site and draws its cooling water from the Schuylkill River. Units 1 and 2 received their operating licenses from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in 1984 and 1989, respectively.
Both of Limerick’s units are boiling water reactors designed by General Electric.”
Plant manager Mr. Gardner is awaiting your calls.
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Is it logical to assume that a nuclear power station has its own radiation monitoring going on? If it detects high levels of radiation where it shouldn’t it automatically shuts itself down?
It would be a great explanation for the raft of US reactors that have “unexpectedly” shut down over the course of the last couple of months.
Of course, they don’t want to override the safety feature, as that would put them in a very vunerable, Chernobyl type, situation. So they have to leave the monitors going and deal with the shutdowns with the usual style – release a statement with reassurance despite no details about the event being provided.
It’s a hypothesis I came up with many weeks ago and this sort of report just seems to reinforce it in my mind. I’ll see if I can dig up some info on the onsite monitoring and automatic shutdown systems to back it up.
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A nuclear plant turned into an amusement park:
http://m.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/a-766424.html
Nice!
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That’s not good !
Reasons for abrupt shut down can originate from non-nuclear part of the plant BUT reactors are not designed for stop-and-go sessions !
Every time, there is a transition phase which is unstable, temperature and pressure change a lot which is a stress for all the pipings and the rest.
Better find WHY it’s shuts down and avoid …:(
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Don’t worry. These reactors are obviously built to contain nuclear fuel rods for 100000+ years. Otherwise they would be putting the spent fuel into Yuka Mt. right now.
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