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Saturday, September 3, 2011

At North Anna nuclear plant, reassurances but no final data on quake impact



At North Anna nuclear plant, reassurances but no final data on quake impact

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, Published: September 2

Mineral, Va. — “It must be a burst steam pipe in the turbine room.”
That thought flitted through the mind of North Anna
 
nuclear power plant senior operator Jason Russell when the Aug. 23 earthquake
 
began shaking the facility’s control room.At North Anna nuclear plant, reassurances but no final data on quake impact
 
Within seconds, indicators showed a loss of electricity needed to cool the plant’s two reactors.
“That’s when I knew it was something else,” said Russell, 30, who was supervising Unit 1 when the largest Virginia earthquake in more than a century struck.

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