Turkey Point nuclear reactors had "turbine kickback" reactors went into "scram"

[originalpckelly]

Err?

This was from one of the Florida Light and Power guys on FOX News.

[spotbird]

1. Which translated means? nt

[originalpckelly]

2. HOLY SHIT:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCRAM

OMG! That's exactly what the guy said! He said SCRAM!

[MrCoffee]

3. Aren't reactors designed to do exactly that if there's a problem?

Sounds like the safety mechanisms worked perfectly.

[RL3AO]

4. Yep. These reactors are made to shut down well before any threat of a meltdown.

[originalpckelly]

6. There is too much silence from FPL. I trust no one else but the people at the plant...

and I'm beginning to think we're not getting the whole story here.

[MrCoffee]

7. well, ok.

[DS1]

9. in his calm voice, I imagine

simmer down now!

[ThomWV]

5. It means that something broke but everything worked like it was supposed to.

And nobody is in danger.

[fed-up]

14. if everything worked like it was supposed to it wouldn't break :) nt

[The Straight Story]

8. This site may be of some help...Current Event Notification

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/en.html

[originalpckelly]

10. Current, maybe, they don't have it updated on the current power status page...

Turkey Point is listed at 100:
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/reactor-status/ps.html

[RL3AO]

11. Apparently the plant lost outside power and went into emergency shutdown.

So the problem started at a different facility (non-nuclear).

[originalpckelly]

13. That is one of the conditions for a SCRAM:

What I find weird, though, is that the guy from the NRC said that the reactors were in a "hot shutdown" so it can't be a SCRAM, because they wouldn't be hot as the control rods would be down and keeping the nuclear reaction from generating heat.

[shain from kane]

12. No rumors of turban blowback? n/t

[spinbaby]

15. Why are you bringing up the Obama turban photo?

:rofl:

[shain from kane]

16. Bin Ladin Determined To Strike Reactor in US - 02/15/2008 - Condi and Bush* were

in Africa. About as far away as possible.

"I didn't want to be fried rice", said Condi, after much hesitation, and screwing her face into an impossible distortion.

"And I didn't want to be the burning bush* (snort, snort)", said Bush*. "You know, like that guy in the history books, Moses, or whatever his name is. Cheney told me I'd better scram for a couple of days, so I left him in charge of nu-cu-lar energy for the week."

[hootinholler]

17. Were's the photo of * holding hands with the turbaned one?

Now that's turban kickback.

Oh, about the reactor? A SCRAM is good when there are unusual circumstances.

-Hoot