They’ve since announced that the cause of the shutdown yesterday was a bad insulator in the power distribution plant:
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20120131/news/701319729/
I’m not Tina Fey, but I can see the Bryon nuclear plant from my house (well, the plume anyhow) and my heart is never troubled by it.
I’ve operated nuc plants (in the navy) and designed them at Stone and Webster.
I can see the Bryon nuclear plant from my house (well, the plume anyhow)
ditto, it did look bigger than normal yesterday.
Know a few tech guys there and never worry either.
Lurking’
Perhaps it’s a good thing you are male - males are less susceptible to breast cancer. A researcher plotted breast cancer clusters around nuke plants in the US. In the UK, a scientist plotted leukemia clusters around nuke plants.