Level 3 Alert at San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant

[right_to_bear_arms]

Just heard a level 3 alert has been declared at San Onofre on Pacific Coast with some sort of evacuation of an emergency management center on site and residents advised to monitor local communications.

Can anyone opine on what a level 3 alert is or could entail? I know there are lots of nuke experts on NES.

Is it go time?

 

[Big Daddy 45acp]

From what I found, a level 3 alert is "The classification could me anything from a near accident to a lost radioactive device. There is also a very low probability of public exposure."

 

[Bill Katt]

So it's nowhere near a classIII malfunction then or is it?

 

[Boghog1]

What color is level 3?

 

[terraformer]

What color is level 3?

Fucsia.

 

[RKG]

http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/emerg-preparedness/about-emerg-preparedness/emerg-classification.html

 

[OCB]

Fucsia.

Okay, good. I dont' really start worrying until it gets to magenta.

 

[sixer]

ammonia leak

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/san-onofre-nuclear-plant-back-to-normal-after-ammonia-leak-alert/2011/11/02/gIQADOPgfM_blog.html

Eh, a little NH3 is goos for ya!

 

[BigMike]

Glad it's nothing big....That's where I surf when I go out to CA.


Didn't want it to turn into "Moon over Marin" - Dead Kennedys!