Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Byron power plant official defends response during power outage

Local media picks up on the Japanese news coverage of the Byron incident.

 

When the shift managers and operators have discussion of what to do next, and they decided to go to the diesel generator to get the power back in," said Dempsey.

It's those eight minutes that an article in the Japan Times points to as a critical failure and could have resulted in severe consequences.

"That day we did have a steam release," said Dempsey.

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