The Indian Point 3 nuclear power plant shut down automatically this morning when a breaker failed in a nearby switchyard, the plant's owner said.
"The reactors in our submarine are designed to withstand the shock of being near the epicenter of a nuclear explosion," he said, adding his certainty that the power plant shut down automatically with its radioactivity still contained in the heavily shielded sixth compartment.
Three other nuclear power plants shut down automatically during Friday's earthquake and are in a safe and stable condition, the IAEA reported on Tuesday.
Mariko Kawase, 34, told AFP news agency: "I am shopping now because we may not be able to go out due to the radiation". Three other nuclear power plants shut down automatically during Friday's earthquake and are in a safe and stable condition, the IAEA reported on Tuesday.
According to Nyko (www.nyko.com), four AA batteries will power the controller for 50 hours with the fan on and 110 if it is turned off; to save power, the device automatically powers down if not used for a few minutes.
One of our power saving efforts, that automatically powers down computers left on the Dell network at night, was spearheaded by a group of employees.
The plant's reactor, which generates enough electricity to power 600,000 homes, shut down automatically on July 17 after water overheated in one of three cooling pumps in the system.
When the earthquake hit the region around Fukushima, eleven operating nuclear reactors at four power plants all shut down automatically.
It can last 5 hours on a charge, but it manages its power supply well, shutting down automatically when you aren't using it.
Due to high winds, five nuclear power plants were shut down automatically, but were ultimately unaffected.
At the Dungeness B power station in Kent, nuclear reactors shut down automatically after debris on incoming power lines interrupted energy to the site, EDF Energy said.
