an
stunning
to fairly innocuous story
a reactor at the millstone nuclear plant
in waterford connecticut
and i remember the nuclear plant will
actually
i went to a college
right around there
and uh...
the cooler students who would live off
campus
of which i was not one
uh... would off
rent
make these nice houses on the water but
it would overlook
literally overlooked the nuclear power
plant
uh... baked it tends to bring down the
rental values i guess
has been shot down of sorts because of
something that in the nineteen sixties i
say this is peace from the new york
times written by matthew l wall
something in the night that it's
nineteen sixties designers never
anticipated
the water in the long island sound it
was to warm up
to cool it
under the reactors reactor safety rules
the cooling water can be no higher than
seventy five degrees on sunday afternoon
the waters temperatures soared two
seventy six point seven degrees
prompting the operator
to order the shot down of the eight
hundred me eighty megawatt reactor
temperatures this summer are the warmest
wishes had since operations began
hearing millstone
plants first reactor now retired began
operation in nineteen seventy
now they should come as
little surprise july
was the hottest
july on record in the united states
the water from the sounds
plow piped into the plant to absorb heat
from palms and other pieces of equipment
as a sound stature instant upward this
summer dominion power received
permission from the nuclear rhetoric
commission to measure it at three
locations instead of one
and to calculate the average in the hope
that it would be lower
contemplate this for a moment
safety regulations say if the water
you're pumping in
to cool off this
nuclear reactor
is above seventy five degrees it's
dangerous
because it's not going to have the
cooling
affects is it shut
so why do they do and what they are
allowed to do by the regulatory agency
devise another plan in which to measure
the temperature of the water
so instead of the water just coming
right and we're gonna measure it over
there
we're gonna measured over their and here
it will take the average
out on a wide day didn't just go but
wait a second
any chance we can measure the water
temperature up in adult court naman
and the water temperature up near green
land and water temperature that's coming
into the reactor
and then average that one
as a stunning
that we're not itself
should have been the story
but apparently that did not helped on
sunday
the sounds temperatures usually does not
peaked until late august
so it could get even warmer
eventually engineers could change the
milford reactors intake pipes so draws
water from for the below the surface
where temperatures are lower
they can also sharpen their pencils
and try to determine whether the plant
can operate safely with cooling water
above seventy five degrees
but neither is a short term project
because you need to get those pencils
very very very very very very sharp
and other words
decrease the margin of error
the story goes on to say the power
plants in the midwest have also
experienced problems as temperatures
have soared in recent weeks
some cases reactor shut down because the
cooling water was too warm
and others the ongoing drought had
shrunk in the body of water from which
the cooling water is drawn the plants
intake pipes were above
the surface
and that's basically the peace
you know it's missing missing from this
this piece we've got the who but i would
be the reactor right and the people
involved in trying
we got the when that took place on
sunday
we got the what
that is that the temperature became too
warm
uh... the capture of the water coming in
is too warm
we got the where it was in that
connecticut
just uh... around the corner from where
east party as a kid
we got the how well the temperature in
the water went to high that's out
what is the missing from this is the y
no mention of july being the hottest
months in the history of this country
or at least the measurements
no mention of that thing uh...
what's thing that's happening
that's causing that's tough to get wat
warmer
there's something
and see if i can think about what it is
here
in
catholic is
if that made up paying by that fact that
the airplane
about the local warming
it's just starting that this guy doesn't
bother to mention it in this speech
you could have just said uh... you know
dropped a
pencil sharpening in just gone directly
to the point
and said they may we calculate what
uh... plant can halt and also global
warming
as this just on it
and me while this guy was one of the
writers on a uh... piece back in july
weather extremes leave parts of u_s_
grid buckley
and again
the only mention of global warming
in this much bigger piece
many federal agencies have officially
expressed the commitment to plan for
climate change
and people wonder why people aren't more
concerned about uh... global warming
is somehow just mysteriously for the
first time in forty two years of
operation
this plant is finding out the water
even one they calculated from three
different locations an average it
together is suddenly too warm
so much for the the y
in this reporter story
