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The two Indian Point nuclear reactors on the Hudson River near Peekskill, the two reactors at Nine Mile Point nuclear plant, the single reactor at Ginna nuclear plant near Rochester, and the FitzPatrick reactor near Oswego all shut down. With three other nuclear plants shut down in Ohio, Michigan, and New Jersey, a total of nine reactors were ...
USA TODAY's Power Outage Tracker showed the largest outages clustered in four northeast Ohio counties on Thursday afternoon: Cuyahoga County, which had more than 173,000 customers without power.
AEP Ohio said the peak time for outages was 6 a.m. when 8,154 customers were without power across service territory in the state. Most of them, a little under 5,000, were in the Columbus area.
Customers across several counties reported power outages. As of 11 p.m. Thursday, more than 32,000 customers were without power statewide. The National Weather Service in Wilmington and Cleveland ...
Safety is the central factor in deciding whether to cancel or delay. Officials may close schools to prevent accidents and other problems caused by inclement weather. Minor storms, when safety is of less concern, may cause few or no cancellations or delays. In severe inclement weather, however, only the most essential operations remain functional.
The plant's switchyard was damaged and access to external power was disabled. The plant's reactor automatically shut down at 8:42 pm and an alert (the next to lowest of four levels of severity) was declared at 9:18 pm. The plant's emergency diesel generators powered critical facility safety systems until external power could be restored. [21] [22]
Power outages are annoying. Not knowing when the lights will return can be frustrating. Use these maps from providers around Ohio to check the status.
The Walter C. Beckjord Generating Station was a 1.43-gigawatt (1,433 MW), dual-fuel power generating station located near New Richmond, Ohio, 22 miles east of Cincinnati, Ohio. The plant began operation in 1952 and was decommissioned in 2014. It was jointly owned by Duke Energy, American Electric Power (AEP), and Dayton Power & Light (DP&L). [1]