[GeronL]

they should also ban coal, firewood, heaters and heating oil while they are at it!

[WayneS]

...after distribution lines that send power from the plant to the electric grid became inoperable because of the weather.

So then, the fact that it is a nuclear power plant is totally irrelevant. It is useless to continue producing electricity at ANY power plant if said electricity cannot be sent to the grid.

This was a distribution system failure, not a nuclear power plant failure.

[KarlInOhio]

If only the grid could be powered by manufactured panic it would have overloaded the past couple days.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

In a statement, officials at the Pilgrim nuclear power plant in Plymouth said it stopped operating in accordance with procedure after distribution lines that send power from the plant to the electric grid became inoperable because of the weather.

During the blizzard, the Massachusetts coast line was being battered with 35 foot seas. Pilgrim is less than 1000 feet from shore. I suspect there are problems we are mot being told.