Front Porch Blog

May 25, 2006

Emergency Shut Down for Catawba Nuclear Towers

JW Randolph

A team of federal investigators will visit the Catawba nuclear plant on Lake Wylie today to learn what led to the emergency shutdown this weekend of both of the plant’s reactors.

Appearantly no people were in danger, but it was just an electrical fault which caused a breaker to fail. Then 12 other breakers to fail…
Check out the whole thing.

JW Randolph

Raised on the banks of the Tennessee River, JW's work to create progress in his home state and throughout Appalachia has been featured on the Rachel Maddow Show, The Daily Kos and Grist. He served first as Appalachian Voices’ Legislative Associate and then Tennessee director until leaving to pursue a career in medicine in 2012.

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