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[Phys-l] Nuclear Power



Last weeks tornados shut down all three reactors at the Browns Ferry Power Plant in northern Alabama.
Downed transmission lines left virtually no load available so the plant went into a cold shutdown state.
Seven of the eight diesel generators have fuel for one week to cool the spent fuel storage pools and reactor cores.
More fuel is being trucked in.
The diesel generators can't provide enough power for 60% of the warning sirens around the plant.

Good thing we don't get tsunamis in the Tenn. Valley ;-)