#Nuclear Plants Get Through #Frankenstorm #Hurricane #Sandy With Little Trouble

Nuclear Plants Get Through the Storm With Little Trouble

green.blogs.nytimes.com 30 Oct '12, 11pm

#Nuclear Plants Get Through #Frankenstorm #Hurricane #Sandy With Little Trouble

European Pressphoto Agency The Oyster Creek nuclear plant in New Jersey, seen here in an undated photo provided by its owner, Exelon Corporation, was put on alert after the storm. The nuclear reactors in Sandy’s path mostly handled the storm well — better than other parts of the region’s electric system. But one reactor, on the New Jersey coast, declared a low-level emergency because rising water threatened to submerge pumps it uses to pull in cooling water. That plant, Oyster Creek , in Toms River, about 60 miles east of Philadelphia, had shut a week earlier for refueling, but still had cooling requirements, especially for its spent fuel pool, where fuel used decades ago is stored; that fuel must be kept submerged, and continues to generate waste heat. Oyster Creek declared an alert, the second lowest on the four-step emergency scale established by the Nuclear Regulatory ...

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