tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post1911880565113038060..comments2024-03-07T02:00:01.582-05:00Comments on NEI Nuclear Notes: More on Last Week's Florida Power OutageUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-31129681745709662202008-03-13T17:59:00.000-04:002008-03-13T17:59:00.000-04:00The engineer wasn't working at a nuclear station -...The engineer wasn't working at a nuclear station - he was somewhere out in the power grid at a major switching station. When the slow-clearing fault spread its effects outward into the system, the nuclear reactors went down due to the severe effects on voltage and frequency. It is common to let experienced engineers work on difficult problems - after all, they are the 'experts' and he should have known better than to disable the second 'backup' level of protection.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-73787270483371299292008-03-05T02:29:00.000-05:002008-03-05T02:29:00.000-05:00I wouldn't mind the electric utilities cutting off...I wouldn't mind the electric utilities cutting off electricity for a month to radical environmentalists who want to shut down power plants. Both at their homes and their work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-51741007131659529372008-03-04T05:45:00.000-05:002008-03-04T05:45:00.000-05:00My question is this: who was the supervisor and ma...My question is this: who was the supervisor and manager for the engineer who made a mistake? It's easy to find a scape goat. Is that what this is? problems like this usually happen because of lack of procedures, training and management oversight. It's very rare for one lone engineer to go itby himself and "wing it", but if he wasn't nuclear trained, I suppose it's possible. I just want to see his manager take some accountability if there is accountability to be shared. There are too many scape goats.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-7393093302091800352008-03-03T16:52:00.000-05:002008-03-03T16:52:00.000-05:00Anyone want to take odds on those who blamed the o...Anyone want to take odds on those who blamed the outage on the Turkey Point reactors going offline coming forward to admit their error? My guess is those would be pretty long odds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-36813058228715252802008-03-03T16:51:00.000-05:002008-03-03T16:51:00.000-05:00Anyone want to take odds on those who blamed the o...Anyone want to take odds on those who blamed the outage on the Turkey Point reactors going offline coming forward to admit their error? My guess is those would be pretty long odds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com