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To: elmatador who wrote (93029)	11/5/2007 9:33:59 AM
From: SuperChief	Respond to of 206133

Palo Verde nuclear facility is in the news again Elmat, Palo Verde supplies over half the power required by Arizona Public Service (The states largest utility) so if the bombers are ever successful and we have blackouts during 120 degree summers...welcome to the world's largest ghost town. NEW YORK, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Arizona Public Service's 1,311-megawatt Unit 1 at the Palo Verde nuclear power station in Arizona exited an outage and ramped up to full power by early Monday, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a report. On Friday, the company locked down the station after security guards at a checkpoint discovered a pipe bomb in a contract workers pickup truck. Police are still investigating the event. Unit 1 was operating at 1 percent power. The company shut the unit on Oct. 22 for work on valves in the feedwater system. The company started the unit on Oct. 30 but stopped the process due to an indication of a problem with a control element assembly. The 3,872 MW Palo Verde station, the biggest nuclear station in the United States, is located in Wintersburg in Maricopa County about 50 miles west of Phoenix. There are three units at the station: the 1,311 MW Unit 1, the 1,314 Unit 2 and 1,247 MW Unit 3, which entered service in 1986, 1986 and 1988, respectively.