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At Oyster Creek nuclear plant, fuel pools started to heat up

Gundersen: Nuclear fuel pool started to heat up at New Jersey plant due to Sandy — They were bringing in fire pumps because of all the problems (AUDIO) http://enenews.com/gundersen-nuclear-fuel-pool-started-heat-nj-plant-bringing-fire-pumps-because-all-problems-sandy-audio
 November 4th, 2012 
Fairewinds Podcast, Nov. 4, 2012: http://fairewinds.org/content/podcast-november-4th-2012
Nuclear Expert Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Energy Education:
There’s something called a PNO out, a preliminary notice of occurrence, and the NRC has said that the normal shutdown cooling and the fuel pool cooling were both lost at Oyster Creek and also that there was a loss of offsite power.

So what that means is the nuclear fuel pool started to heat up and Oyster Creek started to bring in some diesel fire pumps, apparently they got the situation rectified before turning the pumps. They were in a position where they were bringing in diesel fire pumps in order to keep the nuclear fuel pool cool because of all the problems they were having as a result of Sandy.

November 6, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual