North Anna


When a 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook the Washington DC and Virgina regions on August 23, the North Anna nuclear plant automatically shut down.

Over a month later the plant is still idle, waiting for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission green light to restart. But when an NRC inspection team, dispatched in early September, found that 25 of the plant’s 27 steel dry cask storage containers had moved several inches during the quake, that restart date may have been pushed off for much longer than initially expected. Keep reading →