US Power Outages

[Brad Dolan]

Portland General Electric shut down a big, perfectly good nuke a couple 
of years ago since there was ample cheap power to replace it.

So they said.

bd


On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Duncan Frissell wrote:

> At 10:15 AM 8/12/96 -0800, jim bell wrote:
> >This morning, I read the new claim: extreme heat (presumably assisted by 
> >heat dissipated in the power line itself) cause the power cables near The 
> >Dalles (about 100 miles east of Portland, along the Columbia river) to 
> >stretch and sag, eventually shorting themselves out to trees near the ground.
> 
> The real cause was inadequate supply of nuclear power plants caused by
> technophobe agitation.  
> 
> DCF
> 
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