Comment: Do you find the following statement strange: Power outage shuts down oldest nuke plant"? Unplanned shutdown at a Nuke Plant is dangerous and they have a problem with thunderstorms? Do we really trust Nuke Plants, NO!!
July 13, 2009
Associated Press
LACEY TOWNSHIP - The nation's oldest nuclear power plant is temporarily out of commission following an unplanned shutdown that occurred when severe storms knocked out electrical power to the Lacey Township facility early Sunday.
The Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station automatically shut down when thunderstorms knocked out power to the area at 1:35 a.m., and the plant declared an "unusual event" - the lowest level of alert - 15 minutes later.
The all-clear was sounded after electrical power was restored to the area at 4:05 a.m., but the plant remained off-line on Monday for equipment testing. No word on when it might be put back into service.
The plant got a new 20-year license in April. It will be 60 years old at the end of the license.
http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20090713/NEWS01/90713009/1001/RSS
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Nuclear plant shuts down after second mishap
04.07.2009
A controversial German nuclear power plant at the center of a national energy debate has been forced to shut down again following a second mishap.
The Swedish-owned electric utility, Vattenfall, which operates the Kruemmel nuclear power station in northern Germany, said it turned off the reactor on Saturday after a problem with one of the power plant's two machinery transformers.
The defect caused a sudden drop in voltage which, in turn, blacked out between 1,500 and 1,800 traffic lights in Germany's second-largest city of Hamburg and darkened a number of shopping malls.
There were also power cuts last Wednesday thought to have been caused by a transformer problem at the plant.
Safety versus energy security
Kruemmel only re-opened less than two weeks ago after a two-year shutdown triggered by a fire. The 2007 fire which was caused by a short circuit, and other incidents at Vattenfall's Brunsbuettel power plant in the same year, fueled a fierce debate in Germany about the safety of the country's nuclear power stations.
No radioactivity was released by the fire, but concerns remain
The German government and four companies operating nuclear power plants in the country subsequently agreed to tighter safety standards.
When Kruemmel re-opened in June, Vattenfall said the plant, which generates about 10 billion kilowatt hours of electricity per year, had been thoroughly modernized and that this would reduce the likelihood of a future incident.
In 2000, Germany decided to mothball its 17 reactors by the year 2020.
However, Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU/CSU conservative bloc has for some time been calling for a re-assessment of that policy decision, arguing that Germany's dependence on foreign energy made nuclear power indispensable.
gb/AP/dpa/AFP/Reuters
Editor: Andreas Illmer
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4456153,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf
A controversial German nuclear power plant at the center of a national energy debate has been forced to shut down again following a second mishap.
The Swedish-owned electric utility, Vattenfall, which operates the Kruemmel nuclear power station in northern Germany, said it turned off the reactor on Saturday after a problem with one of the power plant's two machinery transformers.
The defect caused a sudden drop in voltage which, in turn, blacked out between 1,500 and 1,800 traffic lights in Germany's second-largest city of Hamburg and darkened a number of shopping malls.
There were also power cuts last Wednesday thought to have been caused by a transformer problem at the plant.
Safety versus energy security
Kruemmel only re-opened less than two weeks ago after a two-year shutdown triggered by a fire. The 2007 fire which was caused by a short circuit, and other incidents at Vattenfall's Brunsbuettel power plant in the same year, fueled a fierce debate in Germany about the safety of the country's nuclear power stations.
No radioactivity was released by the fire, but concerns remain
The German government and four companies operating nuclear power plants in the country subsequently agreed to tighter safety standards.
When Kruemmel re-opened in June, Vattenfall said the plant, which generates about 10 billion kilowatt hours of electricity per year, had been thoroughly modernized and that this would reduce the likelihood of a future incident.
In 2000, Germany decided to mothball its 17 reactors by the year 2020.
However, Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU/CSU conservative bloc has for some time been calling for a re-assessment of that policy decision, arguing that Germany's dependence on foreign energy made nuclear power indispensable.
gb/AP/dpa/AFP/Reuters
Editor: Andreas Illmer
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4456153,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf
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