| Nuclear power outages post-Sandy are second highest in decade Oct 31st 2012, 15:04  (Reuters) - U.S. nuclear power outages this week were the highest since the spring of 2011 as the massive storm, Sandy, slowed or shut several reactors in the Northeast. On Tuesday, outages climbed to 32,045 megawatts (MW), the highest since the refueling and maintenance season in May 2011, following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in March that year. The outages from the spring of 2011 were the highest since at least 1999, the first year data was available on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) website. ...
|  | Nuclear power outages post-Sandy are second highest in decade Oct 31st 2012, 15:04 (Reuters) - U.S. nuclear power outages this week were the highest since the spring of 2011 as the massive storm, Sandy, slowed or shut several reactors in the Northeast. On Tuesday, outages climbed to 32,045 megawatts (MW), the highest since the refueling and maintenance season in May 2011, following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in March that year. The outages from the spring of 2011 were the highest since at least 1999, the first year data was available on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) website. ... | | Huge fire in Sandy's wake destroys New York City beach community Oct 31st 2012, 14:58  ROCKAWAYS, New York (Reuters) - Just before dinner on Monday night, 75-year-old Bruce Bavasso was slugging back sambuca with his neighbors in a private beach community in the Rockaways in New York City. There was a lot of pasta, some hurricane humor and a lot of ribbing about the storm. This was Belle Harbor, the same broad-shouldered, tight-knit beach community where an American Airlines plane crashed in November 2001, killing all aboard and five people on the ground. There was no way tragedy would strike the place again, or so Bavasso and his friends thought. ...
| | Huge fire in Sandy's wake destroys New York City beach community Oct 31st 2012, 14:58 ROCKAWAYS, New York (Reuters) - Just before dinner on Monday night, 75-year-old Bruce Bavasso was slugging back sambuca with his neighbors in a private beach community in the Rockaways in New York City. There was a lot of pasta, some hurricane humor and a lot of ribbing about the storm. This was Belle Harbor, the same broad-shouldered, tight-knit beach community where an American Airlines plane crashed in November 2001, killing all aboard and five people on the ground. There was no way tragedy would strike the place again, or so Bavasso and his friends thought. ... | | Texas set to execute man who murdered girlfriend Oct 31st 2012, 14:18 AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A man convicted of fatally shooting his live-in girlfriend in 2003 after she refused to give him money is scheduled to be executed in Texas on Wednesday. Donnie Lee Roberts, 41, would be the 35th person executed in the United States this year and the 12th in Texas. The execution by lethal injection is scheduled for after 6 p.m. in Huntsville. ... | | Texas set to execute man who murdered girlfriend Oct 31st 2012, 14:18 AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A man convicted of fatally shooting his live-in girlfriend in 2003 after she refused to give him money is scheduled to be executed in Texas on Wednesday. Donnie Lee Roberts, 41, would be the 35th person executed in the United States this year and the 12th in Texas. The execution by lethal injection is scheduled for after 6 p.m. in Huntsville. ... | | New York Harbor "unlikely" to fully reopen Wednesday: U.S. Coast Guard Oct 31st 2012, 14:06  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard said it was "unlikely" that New York Harbor would be fully reopened on Wednesday following Hurricane Sandy, as damage assessments continue in the area. The port is currently open, but under severe traffic restrictions, a spokesman for the USCG said. The Port of Long Island Sound was reopened on Tuesday afternoon. Meanwhile, the ports of Pt. Judith and Block Island, Rhode Island, remain closed to vessel traffic until the Coast Guard completes assessments of those waterways, the USCG said. (Reporting by Edward McAllister; Editing by James Dalgleish)
| | New York Harbor "unlikely" to fully reopen Wednesday: U.S. Coast Guard Oct 31st 2012, 14:06 NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard said it was "unlikely" that New York Harbor would be fully reopened on Wednesday following Hurricane Sandy, as damage assessments continue in the area. The port is currently open, but under severe traffic restrictions, a spokesman for the USCG said. The Port of Long Island Sound was reopened on Tuesday afternoon. Meanwhile, the ports of Pt. Judith and Block Island, Rhode Island, remain closed to vessel traffic until the Coast Guard completes assessments of those waterways, the USCG said. (Reporting by Edward McAllister; Editing by James Dalgleish) | | Alert at New Jersey Oyster Creek reactor ends as water recedes Oct 31st 2012, 14:05 (Reuters) - Power company Exelon Corp said Wednesday it ended an alert at the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in New Jersey after high water from Hurricane Sandy returned to normal levels. Oyster Creek, the nation's oldest operating reactor, declared the rare "alert" Monday night after water levels at the plant rose more than 6.5 feet above normal, potentially affecting the "water intake structure" that pumps cooling water through the plant. The pumps were not essential to keep the reactor cool since the plant has been shut for planned refueling since October 22. ... | | Alert at New Jersey Oyster Creek reactor ends as water recedes Oct 31st 2012, 14:05 (Reuters) - Power company Exelon Corp said Wednesday it ended an alert at the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in New Jersey after high water from Hurricane Sandy returned to normal levels. Oyster Creek, the nation's oldest operating reactor, declared the rare "alert" Monday night after water levels at the plant rose more than 6.5 feet above normal, potentially affecting the "water intake structure" that pumps cooling water through the plant. The pumps were not essential to keep the reactor cool since the plant has been shut for planned refueling since October 22. ... | | Ghosts said to mingle with guests at haunted Arizona hotel Oct 31st 2012, 13:02  DOUGLAS, Arizona (Reuters) - Manager Robin Brekhus was skeptical about her Arizona hotel's supernatural history until the day she went to the basement in search of candles during a power outage and glimpsed a figure in a long duster coat and cowboy hat in the beam of her flashlight. "It was like he wanted me to make eye contact with him and acknowledge that I saw him," she said, recalling how she then sprinted up the steps to the spacious lobby with its Italianate columns and Tiffany & Co. stained glass mural - a new believer. ...
| | More than 760,000 Con Ed customers in NYC still without power Oct 31st 2012, 12:20  (Reuters) - New York power company Consolidated Edison Inc said Wednesday it had restored power to over 160,000 of the 930,000 total customers knocked out by Hurricane Sandy, leaving about 764,000 still without power. Sandy hit the U.S. East Coast Monday night and left almost 8.5 million homes and businesses without power in 21 states from North Carolina to Maine and as far west as Illinois, which surpassed the 8.4 million customers left in the dark by Hurricane Irene last year. ...
| | More than 760,000 Con Ed customers in NYC still without power Oct 31st 2012, 12:20 (Reuters) - New York power company Consolidated Edison Inc said Wednesday it had restored power to over 160,000 of the 930,000 total customers knocked out by Hurricane Sandy, leaving about 764,000 still without power. Sandy hit the U.S. East Coast Monday night and left almost 8.5 million homes and businesses without power in 21 states from North Carolina to Maine and as far west as Illinois, which surpassed the 8.4 million customers left in the dark by Hurricane Irene last year. ... | |
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