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Another VT Yankee emergency shutdown

Well, the other shoe just dropped.  Vt Yankee had an emergency scram today (Thursday) from 62 percent power.  All four main steam stop valves “inadvertantly” slammed closed during a test.  That left 1.6 million horsepower with no place to go.  (At full power, it would have been 2.5 million horsepower.) The resulting scram shut the reactor down.  Why did it happen?  Stay tuned for Mr. O'Brien's next press release supporting the Entergy management team.