Re: how has the big blackout affected you?

Posted by buickanddeere on August 17, 2003 at 02:41:30 from (64.10.41.167):

In Reply to: how has the big blackout affected you? posted by tl rich on August 16, 2003 at 05:36:19:

I was in the Bruce A nuclear power plants when all the class 3&4 lights all went off . Bruce B tripped the turbines, opened the steam release valves and went on poison prevent. We all looked at each other........... Called the wife who was in the Pickering nuclear plant and she just seen the Shift Superintendent and a couple of 1st operators run down the main hallway which as also only lit with class 2 power. The stand by gas turbines where winding up,the steam turbines had tripped and steam release valves were open. Knew then the situation was huge.
We had a couple of voltage spikes/dips knock our office computers off line at the Bruce at approx 3PM and 4 PM, trouble was in the works then.
Darlington and Pickering lost all units for 36 to 40 hours due to Zeon poisoning because of the new stupid *ss procedures. Then afterwards it takes most of a day to start a unit from a extended shutdown.
Used to trip turbines and even reactors on occasion and if the problem was known and corrected we would bring them back before the 20 window was gone. The bulk of Toronto had to wait for electrical power until after Pickering/Darlington could be restarted.
The coal,gas and hydro electric plants managed to supply some essential loads with rotating blackouts once they decided the 500,000v and 230,000v grids could be re-energized.
Western Ontario had better be grateful to Bruce Power, for the three out of four units they saved. We had power back on the grid by 7:00PM Thursday.
I started my "pos" Coleman generator and it failed after two minutes from a grounded rotor before I even added load to it.

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