VERNON, Vt. (AP) -- A spokesman for the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission says it will review an incident at Entergy Corp.'s Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in which one of the plant's emergency backup diesel generators was down for service and a plant technician mistakenly shut down the other one as well.
The NRC's Neil Sheehan says both generators were out of service for about 2 minutes on Friday after a technician sent to work on one disconnected the other from its fuel supply.
Sheehan says the plant continued to operate normally during the incident. The generators are used if a general power outage causes the nuclear plant to lose power from the electric grid. But Sheehan says Vermont Yankee has other backup systems as well, including batteries and a tie to a nearby hydroelectric dam.
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