Re:western power outage

["Robert M. Loesch" <loesch@spok.eh.doe.gov>]

At 11:21 AM 8/12/96 -0500, you wrote:
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>The rate we could increase power was limited be thermal stress
>considerations and not nuclear ones.  I assume coal and oil 
>plants exhibit similar, but perhaps not as strict, limits on 
>their rates of power increase.
>
>Mike Baker 
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I'm not an expert in nuclear engineering (or any other thing for
that matter) but I believe that the primary limits on rates of power 
increase are the maximum periods specified in the plants technical
specifications (part of their NRC license).  This would inheritantly
limit the maximimum safe rate of power increase that could be realized.

Bob

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