Virginia nuclear plant inspected after August earthquake

New York Times : Since the 5.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the US’s East Coast on 23 August, Virginia’s North Anna nuclear plant has emerged as a test case on whether nuclear plant designs in the Northeast are quake-resistant. The plant, owned by Dominion, sits 10–12 miles from the quake’s epicenter. Despite a shock bigger than anything its designers thought it would ever experience, the plant appears to have suffered only cosmetic damage. Jennifer Pollard, a Dominion engineer, said she has inspected every inch of every pipe, connection, valve, and motor in the building and has not found anything significant so far. Dominion is following an inspection procedure laid out by the Electric Power Research Institute, a nonprofit utility consortium that has inspected dozens of industrial plants hit by earthquakes around the world, writes Matthew Wald for the New York Times.