https://www.afinalwarning.com/497817.html (Natural News) One of the two reactors at the South Texas Nuclear Power Station tripped because the facilities are not winterized to withstand extreme cold weather. Station officials submitted a report on Monday to the
“It’s very rare for weather issues to shut down a nuclear plant,” said Brett Rampal, director of nuclear innovation at the Clean Air Task Force. “Some equipment in some nuclear plants in Texas has not been hardened for extreme cold weather because there was never a need for this.”
The reactor’s shutdown posed no risk to safety and was part of normal operations protocol. It also made up only 1,280 megawatts of the 30,000 megawatts of outages on Monday, which caused at least 2 million homes to lose power.
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