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Virgina nuclear plant still shut down after 10 weeks following earthquake

Nuclear power plant remains offline after August earthquake, Washington Post, by ,   November 1 Ten weeks after a magnitude 5.8 earthquake knocked a central Virginia nuclear power station offline, the plant’s operator, Dominion Virginia Power, is still waiting for the go-ahead from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to restart the facility’s two reactors.

“We want to make absolutely certain that there is nothing we haven’t evaluated yet,” said Roger Hannah, an NRC spokesman. He provided no timeline for when the NRC might allow a restart.

In mid-October, an NRC inspection team — the second sent to the site — examined the North Anna power plant near Mineral to evaluate its readiness to restart. The agency is still reviewing data collected then, Hannah said…… http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/nuclear-power-plant-remains-offline-after-august-earthquake/2011/11/01/gIQAFIBUdM_story.html

November 2, 2011 - Posted by | general

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