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Pastimes : The Case for Nuclear Energy -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (70)	4/30/2001 3:35:46 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 312

Sunday April 29 07:22 PM EDT Blackout Chances Go Up San Diego's chances of getting stuck in a rolling blackout will go up this week. One of the units at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant went off-line Sunday for refueling. The unit is expected to be down for some 35 days. The state is already burdened with another of plant outages -- some planned, some not. And since the state is already stretched thin in its power supply, each time a plant, or a part of a plant, goes down it puts the state dangerously close to blackouts. dailynews.yahoo.com Since California's 4 reactors (two per plant) provide 16% of total power output to the California power grid, this means that there is a 4% shortfall to be made up by other power facilities. Fortunately, the temperatures are not at their summer highs. Hawk