St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core

Posted by toomuchtodo 8 hours ago

St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core(www.wptv.com)

136 points | 98 commentspage 3

ck2 7 hours ago|

for "reasons" that they carefully left out?

Florida should be added to title, it's not like the European shutdowns for overheating

mlyle 7 hours ago||

No one knows the reasons yet.

Some rods dropped. Something went wrong with the rod control system. Maybe an errant trip, maybe something mechanically wore, etc.

When a few rods dropped "accidentally" into the reactor, humans pushed the button to shut it down.

Now they figure that out and then turn the reactor back on.

chpatrick 6 hours ago|||

Overheating isn't exactly right, they got shut down because they couldn't be cooled, but they didn't overheat.

preisschild 7 hours ago|||

could have been something as minor as some sensor malfunctioning.

redsocksfan45 2 hours ago||

[dead]

Abh1Works 7 hours ago||

this is really interesting

codyswann 4 hours ago||

I live about four miles from the plant. I have not grown a second head... yet.

rglover 3 hours ago||

This graphic [1] may help others to understand this was normal behavior and what exactly took place. An actual engineer would have to confirm but from other comments this appears mostly accurate.

[1] https://chatgpt.com/s/m_6a82114f63a481919380c5f1e2b432e8

asmodeuslucifer 6 hours ago|

At least they didn't make 300 square km uninhabitable.

https://www.pref.fukushima.lg.jp/site/portal/kyoten-kuiki.ht...

"Current Status: While "Difficult-to-Return Zones" still exist, decontamination and lifting of orders have reduced the designated area down to approximately 2.2% of the prefecture's total land area."