Re: Nuclear Reactors & Blackout

[Wes Groleau <groleau@freeshell.org>]

> I read that it was the irregularity on the power grid which caused them
> to shut down to protect themselves?

Each section should disconnect from the grid
if the grid threatens to demand from them
more power than they can provide safely.  If they
are a net consumer, and the grid stops providing,
they must shut down if their local demand would
exceed capacity dangerously.

The news reports made it sound like the automation
to implement the above failed.  But who can believe
news reports?  One dingbat for the longest time kept
glibly informing us of the (correct) geographic spread
of the outage and that (not even close) it affected
eleven million people.

How can anyone educated enough to be trusted with a
mike not notice that eleven million is absurd for just
New York, Ottawa, Toronto, and Cleveland alone?