North Anna is the first nuclear power plant to shut down after an earthquake in the 53-year history of commercial nuclear power in the United States...Ten weeks after a magnitude 5.8 earthquake knocked a central Virginia nuclear power station offline.... still offline.
...On Oct. 21, Dominion told the NRC it thought both reactors were safe to restart. The company said it spent more than 100,000 man-hours on inspections, testing and minor repairs, at a total cost of $21 million.
Zuercher said the company had not decided whether to seek an increase in the rates customers pay to cover the costs of the outage.
“We want to make absolutely certain that there is nothing we haven’t evaluated yet,” said Roger Hannah, an NRC spokesman.
