"Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 1/27/2015 9:13 AM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 1/27/15 7:24 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:

The media is reporting that the Plymouth Nuclear Power Plant has been
shut down. Both the main transmission line and the back up transmission
line that carries the output of the plant have been damaged or lost due
to the storm. Plant is now running on diesel backup power for it's
internal electrical requirements.

I've talked to my neighbor in the past about situations like this.
He's an engineer who works at the plant. The problem is that when you
shut down suddenly like this there's no place for the energy that is
still being generated to be absorbed or used. A nuke plant doesn't just
"shut off". It still produces massive amounts of energy as it cools
down.

One good thing is that it was only operating at 51 percent of it's
capacity when the transmission lines were lost.


All you guys with cell phones should drive up to the plant and recharge.



Probably would recharge just driving in the plant parking lot.

Actually, they have "dummy loads" to dump the energy as they shut down
the reactor.

They probably have a bypass of the steam for the turbines. So just get rid
of the excess heat.