On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 16:50:16 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

so it is possible that something has bitched a power line - and quite a
big power line if the station was cut off.

Or breakers in a grid switching center got upset by the surges caused
by lines downstream being brought down and tripped Dungeness off.

Once tripped off and Dungeness going into emergency shutdown it takes
about a week to sort things out and bring it back online.

I wonder if the operators at Dungeness could see the varying load and
were aware of the possibilty of a trip or if the first thing they
knew was AWOOGA! AWOOGA! SHUTDOWN! SHUTDOWN! causing them to spill
their morning cup of tea?

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Cheers
Dave.