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North American Power Failure |
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| Beschrijving | The fact is that a power failure can occur at any time. Strangely enough, the power failure that occurred on August 14 throughout the east of Canada and the United States, represented about the same amount of power as the summer demand in the area serviced by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). It gives you some idea of just how concentrated the demand is in this region. If you divide the largest power demand on record (64,300MW) by the surface area (39,500 km2 ), you get a figure of 1.6MW per square kilometer. Furthermore, the majority of this is concentrated in a very small area within the capital. If you just count Tokyo itself, the figure works out at 8.3MW per square kilometer. It's fair to say that the huge power failure in North America should be taken very seriously by TEPCO. However TEPCO's public relations section, even though we still don't know why the system that is supposed to prevent chain reaction power failures in North America didn't work on this occasion, is claiming that 'the system in Japan is such that this couldn't occur here'. This is the response they make each time a nuclear accident occurs overseas. |
| Datum | 1 juli 2003 |
| Pagina nummer | 3 |
| Tijdschrift | Nuke Info Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
| Nr | 96 |
| Aantal pagina's | 1 |
| Tags: | BELANG KE IN ENERGIEPRODUCTIE - Belang in totale productie (per land; zie anders BELANG MONDIAAL) OPSTARTEN - in gebruik nemen TEPCO - Tokyo Electric Power Co. (niet verwarren met Tohoku EPCO) VS - Verenigde Staten ENERGIEBELEID ALGEMEEN - CANADA - land in (Noord-) Amerika, hoofdstad: Ottawa |
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