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UPDATE JUST IN  2:12  AM DST :

IRMA NOW MOVING WNW OFF THE NORTHERN COAST OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.

IRMA NOW 225 MILES ESE OF GRAND TURK ISLAND.

UPDATE :

STATE OF VERA CRUZ, MEXICO ISSUES HURRICANE WARNING FOR HURRICANE KATIA.

2 NUKE PLANTS IN PATH OF STORM IN RISK.

FOX NEWS :



http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/07/2-florida-nuclear-plants-likely-to-shut-down-if-irma-continues-path.html




France’s interior minister on Thursday said the Category 5 storm killed at least eight and injured 23 on St. Martin. Irma blacked out much of Puerto Rico and is headed toward Haiti and the Dominican Republic.


ARE THEY READY FOR IRMA?
2 Florida nuclear plants appear
to be in hurricane's crosshairs

Officials at Florida Power & Light’s two nuclear plants were finalizing staffing plans and cleaning up their grounds Wednesday, but no one at FPL had yet made the call on when to shut down as Hurricane Irma drew nearer.

Peter Robbins, spokesman for FPL, said shutting down a reactor is a gradual process, and the decision will be made “well in advance” of the Category 5 storm making landfall.

“If we anticipate there will be direct impacts on either facility, we’ll shut down the units,” Robbins told the Miami Herald.
"Based on the current track, we would expect severe weather in Florida starting Saturday, meaning we would potentially shut down before that point,” he told Reuters in an email.

The two plants -- Turkey Point and St. Lucie — are equally protected, Robbins said. FPL has long defended the safety of its nuclear plants, both of which sit along the Atlantic coast, where they are potentially exposed to the strongest winds and storm surge of hurricanes.


 

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