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>"Inaccessible" North Carolina Nuclear Plant declares "Unusual Event" During Storm-Driven "Hot Shutdown"
>Duke Energy's Brunswick nuclear plant
Found more sauce on this. Unusual Event was declared due to the plant being inaccessible by plant workers due to all the roads being flooded.
Flooding resulting from Tropical Storm Florence has left Duke Energy’s Brunswick nuclear plant with limited access to the 1,200-acre complex about 30 miles south of Wilmington.
The plant has declared an “unusual event,” the lowest level of nuclear emergency, as required by Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said NRC spokesman Joey Ledford.
According to a filing listed on the NRC web site, “A hazardous event has resulted in on site conditions sufficient to prohibit the plant staff from accessing the site via personal vehicles due to flooding of local roads by Tropical Storm Florence.”
The twin-reactor nuclear plant, located 4 miles inland, is stable and poses no threat to public safety, Ledford said. The facility has off-site electricity from the power grid to cool the nuclear reactors and radioactive nuclear waste at the site.
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article218530735.html