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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 11:56 AM Original message |
Reactors still down after massive Florida power outage: officials |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
1. How can a power failure on the grid cause the shutdown of a nuclear POWER |
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Zachstar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 12:52 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. It is good safety |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 01:13 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Point well taken. But they still need to be running off what THEY |
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Massacure (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 12:54 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. They shut down because they had no where to send the power. |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 01:14 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Sounds like you know a lot more about nuclear power than me, lol. |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 01:40 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Turkey Point is a 1.86 million horsepower engine. |
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ben_meyers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 01:04 PM Response to Original message |
4. I guess they can't just throw a switch or light a match. |
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Nihil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-29-08 05:17 AM Response to Reply #4 |
9. People like Rhonda Roff & Mary Olson need to be repeatedly smacked around the head ... |
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One_Life_To_Give (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
8. Floor the accelerator on your car and shift to neutral |
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