of relief, that it took place in an oven with only mildly radioactive objects. closer to home during last month's major earthquake on the east coast, the north anna nuclear power station in virginia went into automatic shutdown. backup diesel generators kicked in to keep north anna's nuclear fuel cool. it wasn't until days after that we learned the earthquake that shaked the north anna plant was more than it was designed to handle. the north anna power station was not built to withstand the level of shaking that resulted from the earthquake that happened last month. the first time that happened in the u.s. the north anna station was 11 miles away from the epicenter of the earthquake, the earthquake that made the shaking it was not designed to withstand. the nuclear power plant at the epicenter of the earthquake is 60 miles away from the city of richmond, virginia p 100 miles away from washington, d.c. u.s. nuclear safety authorities