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I take issue with the statement that depriving a plant of line power and having a UPS failure will "cause something like Fukushima". An important factor in the

by robryk 12y ago

I take issue with the statement that depriving a plant of line power and having a UPS failure will "cause something like Fukushima". An important factor in the Fukushima accident was the infeasibility of quickly (within a day or so) providing equipment to the plant due to the catastrophe everywhere around.

mschuster91 12y ago
If coordinated enough, a sudden and unexpected total load drop on the whole power station may cause total mayhem due to turbine runaway; combined with a total loss of grid energy due to every grid HV connection being blown I am not sure if plant ops may be able to keep cooling up. These things are very rarely tested in production (esp. turbine containments). Right now we're just sitting there and pretend there are no terrorists or political extremists. We're rather like sitting ducks waiting for potshots.