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VA Nuke Plant Suffers Transformer Trip From Hurricane Michael — flying cuttlefish picayune

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Tropical Storm Michael has sped off toward the Atlantic Ocean, making a mess at the nuke plant in Surry VA

via VA Nuke Plant Suffers Transformer Trip From Hurricane Michael — flying cuttlefish picayune

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October 12, 2018 - Posted by | Uncategorized

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  1. by the time it hit Virginia [VA] it was reduced to tropical storm …. slight error on my wording ….

    Power outages are very bad for nuclear plants as they need conventional power to operate the control room and have few hours of power on the back-up generators.

    Comment by flyingcuttlefish | October 12, 2018 | Reply


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