Tag: nuke_plant

  • Sally, Kirk and Shearon-Harris

    Following up on my post Shearon-Harris Offline: Who Tripped Over the Wire?, I’d like to direct your attention to two of our wonderful local ‘bloggers. Sally Greene has two great posts on the Shearon-Harris nuke plant safety issues and the resulting spin. First, FAIRWarning Tonight I went to the briefing in Pittsboro on the Shearon […]

  • Shearon-Harris Offline: Who tripped over the wire?

    Local Progress Energy nuke plant Shearon-Harris went unexpectedly offline (or in nuke industry jargon “had an unplanned outage”) this morning: Progress Energy’s Shearon Harris nuclear plant shut down today at about 10 a.m., in the first unplanned outage this year. The nuclear plant, about 25 miles southwest of Raleigh, turned itself off automatically when the […]