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September 28, 2011 04:57 pm PDT

Quake's vibration, not power loss, shut off VA nuclear plant

Here's a first: a nuclear power plant in Virginia shut down by the earthquake last August was effectively "switched off" not by a loss of power, as previously thought, but by the actual seismic vibrations from the quake.


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