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发帖数: 263 | 1 SHIPPINGSPORT (KDKA) — A new list from Nuclear Regulatory Commission puts
the nuclear power plant in Beaver County in the top five of those most at
risk of being damaged during an earthquake.
But are we really at risk?
Beaver Valley’s Reactor No. 1 has been in operation since our country
celebrated its bicentennial in 1976. Its sister reactor, Beaver Valley No. 2
, went online 11 years later.
“They’re older reactors, but they are still safe reactors,” said Todd
Schneider, a spokesperson for First Energy. “Before those plants are even
built, the area is studied and research is done to determine what would be
the largest earthquake to impact the area.”
The facility is then over designed.
Despite that, when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission studied the odds of an
earthquake causing a catastrophic failure at a nuclear power plant, Beaver
Valley No. 1 was ranked the fifth worst in the country. Beaver Valley No. 2
is ranked 36th.
“The plant’s capable of withstanding at least a 5.8 Richter scale
earthquake so there is really no need to be concerned about earthquakes in
the area and their impact on the plant,” said Schneider. | S******t
发帖数: 392 | 2 匹兹堡最大的好处就是天灾人祸少。如果这里有6级+地震的话，估计整个加州已经在海
里了。 | c********n
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