nuke "non event' in Georgia...

[SidDithers]

Southern Co's 883-megawatt Unit 2 at the Hatch nuclear power station in Georgia shut early Tuesday from 61 percent power due to high reactor water level, the company told the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a report. At the time of the shutdown, the unit was ramping up after exiting a June 20 outage due to a high reactor pressure scram signal. Operators were investigating the cause of the latest outage. The 1,752 MW Hatch station is located in Baxley in Appling County about 120 miles north of Jacksonville, Florida. It has two units, 876 MW Unit ( UNT - news - people ) 1 and the 883 MW Unit 2, which entered service in 1975 and 1979. The NRC extended the original 40 year licenses for both units in 2002 for another 20 years until 2034 and 2038. Unit 1 continued to operate at full power. One MW powers about 500 homes in Georgia. )

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?glide=NC-20090623-22086-USA&cat=dis&lang=eng

Multiple levels of safety protocols kick in and stop a problem right away.

Full text of "non-event" posted, because a DU'er gets cranky when a thread contains a link but "fails to print the full report"

Sid

[ensho]

1. kick

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