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Notice - Byron, Illinois Nuke In Trouble
by Bob Nichols, Project Censored Winner - Open-Publishing - Wednesday 1 February 2012Loss of Off-site Power Shuts Down Reactor
... by Bob Nichols
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(San Francisco) Excelon Corporation announced Monday, Jan 30 that one of two reactors at Byron, Illinois had automatically shut down due to loss of electrical power from the electrical grid.
The two Byron nuclear stations generate almost 7 Billion Watts of heat, 2.3 Billion Watts is turned into electricity; the remaining 4.7 Billion Watts of Heat is wasted heating up the Rock River.
This is perfectly in line with the normal abysmal efficiency of the big nuke power reactors of at most 33%. Equivalent Billion Watt coal and/or natural gas power plants hit 60% efficiency.
Light radioactive gases are being released in steam from the turbine building.
