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| Permalink View Article Stats (1 comment) Promoted to Headline (H3) on 9/3/11: Cause of shutdown at North Anna nuclear plant sought - Richmond Times-Dispatch Quicklink submitted by Meryl Ann Butler (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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MINERAL, VA- Dominion Virginia Power officials are working to discover exactly what caused the North Anna nuclear reactors to trip off line in the Aug. 23 earthquake. The powerful magnitude 5.8 quake's epicenter was 11 miles from the North Anna Power Station in Louisa County. The quake shut down the plant's two reactors, an unprecedented event in the United States. ![]() VA earthquake caused shift of 115-ton casks storing used nuclear-fuel by Credit: DEAN HOFFMEYER/TIMES-DISPATCH |
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