Green Blog: Heat Shuts Down a Coastal Reactor

Heat Shuts Down a Coastal Reactor

Green Blog: Heat Shuts Down a Coastal Reactor

C.M. Glover for The New York Times A reactor ceased operations on Sunday at the Millstone Nuclear Power Station in Waterford, Conn. A reactor at the Millstone nuclear plant in Waterford, Conn., has shut down because of something that its 1960s designers never anticipated: the water in Long Island Sound was too warm to cool it. Under the reactor’s safety rules, the cooling water can be no higher than 75 degrees. On Sunday afternoon, the water’s temperature soared to 76.7 degrees, prompting the operator, Dominion Power, to order the shutdown of the 880-megawatt reactor. “Temperatures this summer are the warmest we’ve had since operations began here at Millstone,’’ said a spokesman for Dominion, Ken Holt. The plant’s first reactor, now retired, began operation in 1970. The plant’s third reactor was still running on Monday, but engineers were watching temperature trends carefu...

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RT @fred1st: Heat Shuts Down a Coastal Reactor. Intake water has never been this hot--especially in mid August. [link]
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RT @Harringtonkent: CLIMATE CHANGE: Heat Shuts Down a Coastal Nuclear Reactor in Conn [link] the water was too warm to cool it.
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RT @FatherGator: Long Island Sound water too warm to cool nuclear power plant [link]
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RT @EliasHinckley: Too-hot sea water forces nuke plant off-line. This sounds, well, serious. [link] via @danfagin
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@danfagin » 13 Aug '12, 9pm
For first time, Long Island Sound has gotten too hot to cool a 42-year-old reactor at MIllstone #nuclear plant. Wow. [link]
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RT @ShaunMcKinnon: RT @craigtimes Nuclear reactor shuts down b/c Long Island Sound is too warm to provide cooling H2O. [link] #climatechange
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Here's a fun story: long island sound water is too warm to properly cool a nuclear reactor, forcing it to shut down: [link]
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RT @danfagin: For first time, Long Island Sound has gotten too hot to cool a 42-year-old reactor at MIllstone #nuclear plant. Wow. [link]
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RT @danfagin: For first time, Long Island Sound has gotten too hot to cool a 42-year-old reactor at MIllstone #nuclear plant. Wow. [link]
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