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Monday, August 29, 2011

Irene and East Coast Nuclear Plants

Calvert Cliffs reactor remains off-line

Baltimore Sun - Hanah Cho -
Workers at Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant in Southern Maryland were working Sunday afternoon to bring a reactor online after it was shut down late Saturday when a piece of debris tossed by heavy winds from Hurricane Irene ...

U.S. Nuclear Reactors Weather Storm Safely Without Losing Power

San Francisco Chronicle -
Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- More than a dozen nuclear plants in the path of Hurricane Irene along the US East Coast safely weathered the storm's passage without losing power to their reactors, according to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ...

U.S. Nuclear Reactors Weather Hurricane Irene Safely Without Losing Power

Bloomberg - Julie Johnsson -
Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant located in Lusby, Maryland. Source: Constellation Energy Group Inc. via Bloomberg Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Wind and rain pelt Cape Cod, Massachusetts, as Tropical Storm Irene ...

Impact of Hurricane Irene on US Nuclear Energy Facilities

MarketWatch (press release) -
See http://www.nei.org/keyissues/safetyandsecurity/factsheets/through-the-decades-the-history-of-us-nuclear-energy-facilities-responding-to-natural-challenges . Nuclear power plants operating in 31 states provide electricity to one of every five US ...

Calvert Cliffs Unit 1 Nuclear Facility Off Line After Wind Gusts Strike ...

MarketWatch (press release) -
BALTIMORE, Aug 28, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant Unit 1 operated by Constellation Energy Nuclear Group (CENG) automatically went off line late Saturday after a piece of aluminum siding propelled by wind gusts hit the nuclear ...

Maryland nuke shut safely after transformer hit by debris

Reuters Africa - David Sheppard, Matthew Robinson -
NEW YORK Aug 28 (Reuters) - A nuclear reactor at CENG's Calvert Cliff plant automatically shut down late Saturday after a transformer was hit by a large piece of aluminum siding dislodged during Hurricane Irene, a company spokesman said on Sunday. ...

Constellation reports Calvert Cliffs reactor went off-line; company says ...

Washington Post -
By AP, LUSBY, Md. — Constellation Energy Nuclear Group says crews are working to get Unit 1 of its Calvert Cliffs facility back up after it automatically went off-line during Hurricane Irene. Spokesman Mark Sullivan said Sunday morning that a large ...

Constellation reports Calvert Cliffs reactor went off-line; company says ...

Washington Post -
By AP, LUSBY, Md. — Constellation reports Calvert Cliffs reactor went off-line; company says facility is safe Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. ...

Md. nuclear reactor knocked offline by hurricane debris

Baltimore Sun -
A reactor at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant remained shut down this morning as officials assess the damage caused when a piece of debris tossed by heavy winds damaged a transformer. A spokesman said as of 8 am this morning that “Unit 1 is safely ...

Constellation Energy Nuclear Group (CENG) Press Statement:

MarketWatch (press release) -
BALTIMORE, Md., Aug 27, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- As of 7 pm EDT, the CENG Calvert Cliffs nuclear power facility in Lusby, Maryland remains at 100 percent power on both units. Two representatives from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) are ...

US Reactors Ride Out The Storm

Energy Collective - Dan Yurman -
The nuclear reactors in eleven eastern states were mostly unaffected by the passage of Hurricane Irene over the weekend of August 26-28, 2011. Two reactors shut down safely and several others reduced power. At Constellation's Calvert Cliffs site in ...

Hurricane Irene: does little damage to nuclear plants

Examiner.com -
Several nuclear plants were in the path of monster storm Irene this weekend, bracing for the worst, which would entail forced shutdowns and flooding of their secondary buildings. But as the storm began to slam into the coast it downgraded and in the ...

Two nuclear power plant units shut down from storm

Power Engineering Magazine -
Constellation Energy Group (NYSE: CEG)'s 1735 MWe Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant in Maryland was shut down after winds from Hurricane Irene August 27 blew a piece of aluminum siding into the main transformer at the site. The plant declared an unusual ...

Unit 1 at Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant goes offline in US

Energy Business Review -
Constellation Energy Nuclear Group's (CENG) Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant unit 1 located in Maryland, US went offline on 27 August 2011, when a piece of aluminum siding propelled by wind gusts hit the nuclear facility's main transformer. ...

US & World News, Monday 8/29

Tristatehomepage.com -
(Calvert Cliffs, MD) -- Hurricane Irene's weekend whipping of the East Coast is keeping two reactors at nuclear power plants offline. The Calvert Cliffs facility in southern Maryland automatically went offline after Irene's winds blew a piece of ...

Several nuclear units increasing output after Hurricane Irene

Platts -
While Constellation Energy's Calvert Cliffs-1 nuclear unit remains shut following the passage of Hurricane Irene, other nuclear generation units along the US East Coast were increasing output early Monday, according to the Nuclear Regulatory ...

2 Reactors Shut Down Safely and 6 Reduce Power, but Majority of Affected ...

Nuclear Street - Nuclear Power Portal (blog) -
A transformer struck by flying debris triggered an automatic shutdown at a Calvert Cliffs reactor Saturday, and New Jersey's Oyster Creek nuclear plant was taken offline the day before as a precaution. But most of the 20-plus reactors in the region ...

Impact of Hurricane Irene on US Nuclear Energy Facilities

Hola Arkansas -
Calvert Cliffs 1 ? automatically and safely shut down, as designed, when a large piece of aluminum siding struck a transformer late Saturday; the power station immediately declared an unusual event, the lowest of four emergency classifications, ...

Irene takes two nuclear power plants offline

The Hill (blog) - Ben Geman -
Hurricane Irene – which was downgraded to a tropical storm Sunday – has prompted the shutdown of nuclear reactors in Maryland and New Jersey. In Maryland, one reactor at Constellation Energy's Calvert Cliffs plant ...

Nuclear Plant Under 'Unusual Event'

WBAL Baltimore -
LUSBY, Md. -- Calvert Cliffs, a Southern Maryland nuclear power plant, automatically went offline overnight. An "unusual event" status remained in effect Sunday morning. Constellation Energy Nuclear Group spokesman Mark Sullivan released a statement ...

Hurricane Irene knocked a nuclear reactor offline at Calvert Cliffs

ABC2 News -
Copyright 2010 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. As of 8 am, the Constellation Energy Nuclear Group nuclear power fleet is safe, secure and stable, including the Calvert ...

U.S. Nuclear Reactors Weather Storm Without Losing Power

San Francisco Chronicle -
(Adds comment from Exelon spokeswoman in eighth paragraph. For more on the hurricane, see EXT5 .) Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- More than a dozen nuclear plants in the path of Hurricane Irene along the US East Coast safely weathered the storm's passage ...

Hurricane Irene: two nuclear power plants shut down

Telegraph.co.uk - ‎Aug 28, 2011‎
Hurricane Irene has forced two nuclear power plant off line and reduced power at two others. Hurricane Irene has forced two nuclear power plant off line and reduced power at two others. CENG reported Unit 1 at its Calvert Cliff, Maryland refinery was ...

Irene Knocks Nuclear Reactor Off -Line

NBC Washington - ‎Aug 28, 2011‎
One of two nuclear reactors at Calvert Cliffs, Md., went off-line automatically overnight because of Hurricane Irene, according to Constellation Energy Nuclear Group. The facility and community is safe and stable, Constellation spokesman Mark Sullivan ...

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