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Facility & Company Information => Region II (South East) => Turkey Point => Topic started by: SloGlo on Sep 09, 2017, 09:06

Title: irma
Post by: SloGlo on Sep 09, 2017, 09:06

is turkey point staying operational threw irma landfall?

Title: Re: irma
Post by: Marlin on Sep 09, 2017, 09:25

Considering the $90 million damage last time this is not surprising, Turkey's stack on the fossil side that was designed to take much higher winds cracked in the last one that went through.

Florida nuclear plants to shut ahead of Hurricane Irma

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-irma-nuclearpower/florida-nuclear-plants-to-shut-ahead-of-hurricane-irma-idUSKCN1BI2IA (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-irma-nuclearpower/florida-nuclear-plants-to-shut-ahead-of-hurricane-irma-idUSKCN1BI2IA)

Title: Re: irma
Post by: SloGlo on Sep 09, 2017, 10:55

gist trying two balance against the harvey article..

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2017/09/01/hurricane-harvey-makes-the-case-for-nuclear-power/#4a2e0ee3625f

Title: Re: irma
Post by: SloGlo on Sep 11, 2017, 09:46

did turkey point n crystal river power up yet?

Title: Re: irma
Post by: scotoma on Sep 11, 2017, 10:12

If a great number of your customers are without power, there is less need to generate power.

Title: Re: irma
Post by: SloGlo on Sep 11, 2017, 10:25

Quote from: scotoma on Sep 11, 2017, 10:12

If a great number of your customers are without power, there is less need to generate power.

sew yore saying know, n theirs knot a knead.

Title: Re: irma
Post by: a|F on Sep 11, 2017, 03:02

Dual unit outage at TP can't be fun. Any insights as to what happened with the FRV system?