http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/at-north-anna-nuclear-plant-reassurances-but-no-final-data-on-quake-impact/2011/09/02/gIQAbZBrxJ_story.html

 

At North Anna nuclear plant, reassurances but no final data on quake impact

By Brian Vastag

 

, Published: September 2

Mineral, Va. — “It must be a burst steam pipe in the turbine room.”
That thought flitted through the mind of North Anna

 

nuclear power plant senior operator Jason Russell when the Aug. 23 earthquake

 

began shaking the facility’s control room.At North Anna nuclear plant, reassurances but no final data on quake impact

 

Within seconds, indicators showed a loss of electricity needed to cool the plant’s two reactors.
“That’s when I knew it was something else,” said Russell, 30, who was supervising Unit 1 when the largest Virginia earthquake in more than a century struck.