Strange: Spokesman says workers at Virginia nuke plant were preparing to manually shut down reactors after quake when system went into automatic

Strange: Spokesman says workers at Virginia nuke plant were preparing to manually shut down reactors after quake when system went into automatic shut down — Another spokesman says “it was a manual shutdown”

[...] Dominion spokesman Richard Zuercher [...] said North Anna’s operators were preparing to manually shut down the units after the quake when the power station’s operating system automatically powered down both units, which supply about 10 percent of the state’s electricity.

“Their staff is obviously looking at every inch of that plant,” the governor said. [...]

[link to www2.timesdispatch.com]