More than 8.1 million homes and businesses were left without electric
power across the eastern United States Tuesday with superstorm Sandy
still moving across the region, the US government said. The most
extensive outages were reported in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania
where millions were plunged into darkness by the storm, the US
Department of Energy said.
"As of 9:00 am EDT October 30, the impacted states report a
total of 8,114,433 customers without power in the affected areas," it
said. New Jersey was hardest hit with 2.5 million outages, New York 1.96
million, and Pennsylvania 1.26 million. In all, 17 states and the
District of Columbia reported storm-related outages. Meanwhile, two US
nuclear power plants were shut down early Tuesday in the aftermath of
superstorm Sandy, but the plant operators stressed there were no risks
to the public. New Jersey's main power company PSEG Nuclear shut down
its Salem 1 unit on the Delaware river, saying most of its water
circulation pumps had been rendered unusable "due to weather impacts".
PSEG said it manually shut down the 1,175 MW unit, but said
there were "no issues" in the shutdown and the facility was "currently
stable." The Salem 2 unit was already offline for maintenance when the
storm hit, and PSEG said another nearby nuclear unit, Hope Creek,
remains operating at full power.
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