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[Aug 15, 2003, 09:39 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Update: I was working on this update, but the power that returned here last night just cut out again, so if it does not come back, I will use the time being provided by my UPSs to post what I have, and apologize for the downtime.

As far as I can tell, the fact that my power came back after just a few hours yesterday put me in the minority of those originally impacted by the big blackout here in the northeast. MrsBlue spent the night in the city with her sister, my step-Grandma in Brooklyn is still blacked-out, friends just north of here were without power when last I heard... I'm not sure if its our ominous proximity to a nuclear power plant that's helped get us back online, but right now I'm not complaining. Seems UGO's data center is nicely powered, as is my Telco-provided DSL, but the local ISP where my mail resides does not get such high marks for preparedness, as my mail has been dead since the first outage, meaning some mailed-in links are going to pile up for the moment.

Play Time:	Flash Nuclear Power Plant.
Link of the Day:	Tips of all Sorts: Blackout. Home Power Magazine.
Stories of the Day:	Experts Ask How Blackout Spread Quickly. One Dead, One Hurt in New York Blackout.
Wild Science:	New dinosaur found in India.
Weird Science:	Model plane flown across Atlantic. Thanks Travis McPherson. 'Healthy' peanuts to hit stores next year.
	Thanks Mike Martinez.

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nuke simulator

Aug 16, 2003, 09:41

Armengar

average 1833kw and I only kill half of the fish in the local streams -I take it primary coolant is radioactive as hell and secondary not quite as much? In which case 4L per day maybe bad, still, no blackouts in my jurisdiction

I can only manange a measly 1280 on difficult

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Comment [quote="Armengar"Aug 16, 2003, 09:41]average 1833kw and I only kill half of the fish in the local streams -I take it primary coolant is radioactive as hell and secondary not quite as much? In which case 4L per day maybe bad, still, no blackouts in my jurisdiction :) I can only manange a measly 1280 on difficult [/quote]

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