Bird poop caused NY nuclear reactor outage – IOTW Report

Bird poop caused NY nuclear reactor outage

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Bird poop was the likely cause of a December shutdown at a nuclear power plant outside New York City, according to the operator.

An Indian Point reactor safely shut down for three days starting Dec. 14 following an electrical disturbance on outdoor high voltage transmission lines, Entergy Corp. said. An outside expert is analyzing whether what’s technically called bird “streaming” was the culprit.

In a report to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission last month,

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9 Comments on Bird poop caused NY nuclear reactor outage

  1. The bird must have crapped on the Gallup poll too.

    Drudge has a link to a Gallup poll that Zero has a 51% approval rating. He doesn’t reach 15% with me. The craziness of the nomination process would indicate that 51% of the citizens don’t approve of where he has taken the country and the world.

  2. My power engineering Prof told us of a similar case where an eagle would take her morning dump and it would land on a transmission line insulator somewhere in the Hudson Valley.

    They kilt the bird.

  3. That bird’s lucky this isn’t Iran otherwise he would be captured and shot for being an Israeli spy, If it were Saudi Arabia he would be shot for being a sorcerer in bird form.

  4. So what if it was a magpie which are both black and white? Would it get a pass for being mostly black and partly white? Or would the white part trump the black part? And what if it was a murder of crows? I’d bet that they couldn’t remake the Alfred Hitchcock classic movie The Birds nowadays let alone Dumbo because of the wisecracking shuck and jive crows.

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