"Little pig, little Pig, let me come in."
"No, no, not by the hair on my chinny chin chin."
"Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in."
So three things took out Fitz. These plants have have millions of components in it and the bureacrocy of the plant is just as complex. This is what happens with insufficient maintenance and budgets...the plant runs away from them. This is a small scale cascade event at the plant.
These guys are heading for the gallows in a year. They ain't plowing money into this invaluable plant.
Anyone watching the new X Files?
What is wrong with this picture? They were at 100% when Frazil ice didn't take them out. Then went down to 60%. It sounds like it's operator error dressed up as an act of god with frazil ice.
Somebody is lying through their teeth. This is not illegal at all.
1) Frasil
2) So called Planned maintenence
3) And a broken switch
Platts: FitzPatrick spokeswoman Tammy Holden said in an email Monday: "The lowering intake level indication was a result of frazil ice," which she explained "is a slushy ice condition that occurs in Lake Ontario under meteorological conditions involving water temperature, air temperature, and wind speed and direction." She said, "Frazil ice can create a blockage at the [water] intake structure."
Sheehan on Monday said, "There was one complication during shutdown: A power transfer glitch knocked the circulating-water pumps out of service, but other systems were used for the cooldown."
Operators early Friday had reduced the unit's output to 60% of capacity from 100% early in order to conduct unrelated "planned maintenance," Holden said that day in an email.
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