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by thijson 693 days ago
When the Northeast power grid went down down in 2003, the Bruce Nuclear Power Development was almost entirely kicked off the grid. It was able to keep ticking over at a few percent of power output though because of a feeder line that went North. This prevented the reactors from poisoning out, and allowed them to come back faster than if they had poisoned out.