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FirstEnergy’s Perry Nuclear Power Plant had an Emergency Shutdown Saturday, Still Not in Operation

FirstEnergy’s Perry Nuclear Power Plant had an Emergency Shutdown Saturday, Still Not in Operation By Sam Allard on Wed, Jul 31, 2019 The nuclear power plant in Perry, Ohio, operated by the FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC), had an emergency shutdown Saturday evening.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) event log shows that at 7:29 p.m. on July 27, the reactor automatically shut down after a “main turbine trip.”

Via the event log’s summary, the trip was “not complex,” but its cause is still unknown and is being investigated by FENOC. ….. https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2019/07/31/firstenergys-perry-nuclear-reactor-had-an-emergency-shutdown-saturday-still-not-in-operation

August 1, 2019 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general